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Our Place On The Map, Chester Smolski, Anne K. Petry
Our Place On The Map, Chester Smolski, Anne K. Petry
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"National Geography Awareness Week (Nov. 11-17) will have special significance for the schools of Rhode Island. The National Geographic Society has just awarded a $1000 planning grant to the two of us, one of such seven awards granted this year, to begin the process by which all of our schools may again bring geography to its full importance in the curriculum."
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
The mid 1980s in Rhode Island will be long remembered as a time of intensive real estate development, explosive house process and manmade growth sprawling over the countryside. These phenomena also generated a reaction in the form of environmental concerns, the NIMBY syndrome, affordable housing issues and the passage of the 1988 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act.