A note on the Town Project.
Jan. 4th, 2013 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThe aim is to photograph every town in the state, and I put on LJ to keep track of them and they be useful for someone one day.
I'm using town in a very broad sense, to include everything from hamlets to cities. Basically, it a place that is or was a gathering of buildings that includes houses and services for the residents, that has/had an identity separate from the surrounding area. Services being a post office, fire station, school, sports team, community hall, hotel (and, of course, a phone box). Shops don't count, because shops pop up anytime there's enough people to make it worth having one, whereas the other things usually require some form of community identity. Although a shop that includes a post office counts :)
It doesn't include suburbs that are residential areas of a city, unless they were a town in their own right before becoming part of the city.
The quality and quantity of photos varies, because sometimes we're just passing through, other times I get time to walk down the street and do it properly. There's also the problem that I can't remember which ones I've already done :)
I'm using town in a very broad sense, to include everything from hamlets to cities. Basically, it a place that is or was a gathering of buildings that includes houses and services for the residents, that has/had an identity separate from the surrounding area. Services being a post office, fire station, school, sports team, community hall, hotel (and, of course, a phone box). Shops don't count, because shops pop up anytime there's enough people to make it worth having one, whereas the other things usually require some form of community identity. Although a shop that includes a post office counts :)
It doesn't include suburbs that are residential areas of a city, unless they were a town in their own right before becoming part of the city.
The quality and quantity of photos varies, because sometimes we're just passing through, other times I get time to walk down the street and do it properly. There's also the problem that I can't remember which ones I've already done :)
