… and big-box strip centers have replaced the true community with soul-less auto-oriented sprawl.

We lament the loss of the native landscape; architecture of beauty and permanence; and the absence of meaningful culture. With the heavy-handed cut-and-fill method of development, the end product is cancerous destruction of real community.

With the petro-crisis now at hand, it is essential to begin modeling utopian villages, designing neighborhood centers scaled for the pedestrians, and road systems that accommodate bicycles, low-speed electric motor vehicles, and other healthy options. The disposable architecture of the late 20th century must be reinvented for efficiency, durability, and beauty.

Illustrated below are options presented to The City of Milton, GA to begin retrofitting the Historic Crabapple Crossroads. Lew Oliver, Inc. has accepted the challenge to design the town of the new millennium, utilizing lessons learned from age-old pedestrian cities, and coupling them with needs of the 21st century.