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Local Identity

Consider the shared names, landmarks and ties through which places are understood.

Our point of view

Place makes more sense in context

A county boundary is one way to describe a place, not the whole story. We look across the lines to the features and connections that give places their character.

  1. A Boundary Follows the Land, Until It Does Not
  2. Contour Lines or Shaded Relief: Two Ways to Read a Landscape
  3. What a Place Name Can Preserve, and What It Cannot

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