{"id":6268,"date":"2021-08-27T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2021-08-27T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:09:40","slug":"friday-roundup-comprehensive-plan-and-selected-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=6268","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Comprehensive Plan and Selected Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Comprehensive Plan Update<\/strong>: If you want to see what the Planning Commission is recommending for future land use in the city, stop by City Hall on <strong>Tuesday, August 31 at 5:30 pm<\/strong> to talk with staff and review exhibits. At 6:30 pm, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and they want to hear your thoughts. Written comments can be submitted but must be received by 5 pm on August 27 to be provided to the Commission prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are traveling to Colonial Williamsburg this fall, you may want to keep an eye out at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colonialwilliamsburg.org\/locations\/dewitt-wallace-decorative-arts-museum\/\">DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum<\/a> <\/strong>for a silver tankard made by Paul Revere. You can learn more about the item at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoryblog.com\/archives\/62035\">History Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the Public Domain Review for a photo essay <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/essay\/porch-memories\/\"><strong>Porch Memories<\/strong><\/a> by Federica Soletta. As we&#8217;ve already <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T1SCsAQDKcU\">touched on here at PHW<\/a>, porches are uniquely embedded in American architecture and culture. Combining historic images and small vignettes helps bring the photos to life and highlight the porch as a scene of American life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our best finds in the tracing of historic stories are from the <strong>Virginia Chronicle<\/strong> newspaper collections. The <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/04\/digitizing-newspapers-its-global\/\">Library of Virginia dedicated a blog post<\/a> to the worldwide tour these scanned and searchable pages take before they become accessible to researchers online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strong Towns blog posted a four part series on the <strong>alley in America<\/strong>. Catch all four parts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2021\/8\/16\/the-american-alley-part-1-a-hidden-resource\">The American Alley: A Hidden Resource<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2021\/8\/17\/the-american-alley-part-2-origins\">Origins of the American Alley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2021\/8\/18\/the-american-alley-part-3-the-end-of-the-american-alley\">End of the American Alley<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2021\/8\/19\/the-american-alley-part-4-rediscovering-the-forgotten-human-scale\">Rediscovering the Forgotten Human Scale<\/a>. The series has been collected into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongtowns.org\/journal\/2021\/8\/20\/the-american-alley-ebook\">free downloadable ebook<\/a>, also available on their blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comprehensive Plan Update: If you want to see what the Planning Commission is recommending for future land use in the city, stop by City Hall on Tuesday, August 31 at 5:30 pm to talk with staff and review exhibits. At 6:30 pm, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and they want to hear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=6268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Roundup: Comprehensive Plan and Selected Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[39,53],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informational-events","category-planning-commission","tag-informational-events","tag-planning-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}