The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the leading organization in environmental design research, is pleased to announce its new and exciting partnership with Coulter Nonprofit Management. The McLean-based Coulter Nonprofit Management (a division of The Coulter Companies) will position the organization to streamline its business and strategic operations. Leading this venture, Kate O’Donnell will serve as EDRA’s Executive Director and will work closely with the organization’s ten-member Board of Directors to promote, elevate and extend EDRA’s vision and commitment to its members.

The submission deadline for EDRA42Chicago is exactly one month away!   The call for papers has been extended slightly since it was distributed at EDRA41 in DC.   Please download an updated call here.  And please note that we are going to hold tight to the October 1 deadline for parallel session submissions.  

Saturday, June 19, 2010

"Georgetown's Social Safeway is a Monument to Changing Supermarket Structure"

"The recently rebuilt "Social Safeway" on Wisconsin Avenue NW, at the northern edge of Georgetown [in Washington, DC], is not just another remodeled supermarket. It represents a positive evolution in thinking about merchandising strategy and about being a good citizen through pedestrian-friendly architecture and urban design.

This new supermarket follows a completely different set of rules than its predecessor. Safeway and other supermarket chains traditionally have adhered dogmatically to rules about selection of sites for stores and, in particular, rules about how such sites should be developed. And one of the primary rules was: Cars rule"

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