August 3, 2005 (RALEIGH, NC) – On Sunday, August 14, Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, and landscape architect Dick Bell, FASLA, will appear on NBC 17’s “At Issue” with host Monty Knight, to tackle the subject, “Development: Two Much Too Fast or Worth The Price?”
“I think it’s a big mistake to equate development with progress,” Harmon said recently. “The progress w need is community development, not this proliferation of suburbs. We need participation — in community well-being and in living sustainably with the earth. If I have a theme, it’s participation with the natural world and the community.”
In a May 2, 2005 “Point of View” column in the Raleigh News & Observer, Dick Bell wrote, “With wanton disregard for our natural systems and disrespect for our regional history and culture, we have embraced a throwaway society that will leave our children a shadow of what could have been… We may not have intended a throwaway society, but we’ve been living it for at least 65 years. As a result, our landfills are stuffed with the debris of our existence. We trash our finite natural resources. We trash our future through overindulgence and waste. And we trash the futures of our children by not showing them the world they will inherit from us — a world deplete of resources and opportunities — if we don’t put a stop to rampant, throwaway development.”
Joining Knight, Harmon, and Bell will be regular panelists Cash Michaels, Donna Martinez and other guests.
“At Issue” airs every Sunday on NBC 17 at 11 a.m. following “Meet The Press” with Tim Russert. For more information, visit www.nbc17.com.
For more information on Frank Harmon, go to www.frankharmon.com.