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Film Row on Church Street |
This is our gift to Warren...
a celebration for him and for his work.
Thank you, Warren.
From
Warren...
"As an urban designer for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Planning Commission for the past 2 years, I have relied heavily on pen and
ink and watercolor drawings to illustrate conceptual ideas related to my
work, which has been primarily involved with the revitalization of some of
Charlotte’s older, historic neighborhoods beginning with Dilworth and
Plaza/Midwood in 1979. With a disdain for computers, because they keep you
inside, away from people, I like to walk the streets of the neighborhoods
in which I am working, to observe, meet people, and imagine possibilities.
I write and sketch my ideas on location in my sketchbook/journals, having
filled a shelf full in the last two decades. Many of the ideas and
sketches get further developed and may become a key recommendation for a
particular neighborhood, while others were just fleeting thoughts,
captured quickly on paper, and quickly forgotten."