Abstract
At its October 1988 meeting, the Design Review Commission of Germantown, Tennessee, reached an impasse with the Gulf Oil Company over its proposal to construct a gasoline station and small convenience outlet on a corner site on the rapidly developing eastern edge of the city. This was not the first occasion that the commission had differed with developers over its seventeen-year life, nor was it the first time the board had dealt with the troubling issues of automobile-oriented uses. However, this case came to threaten the very existence of the board.
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Hack, G. (1994). Discovering Suburban Values through Design Review. In: Scheer, B.C., Preiser, W.F.E. (eds) Design Review. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2658-2_8
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