Whitewater Parks
The Hypothetical. Communities are generally looking for ways to distinguish themselves for the benefit of their residents and businesses. Historic […]
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Transformative infrastructure funding is here. The application process for getting it still needs work.
Brookings has a terrific article on the status of the process for small cities and towns to access federal infrastructure
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Main Street Parks and Plazas
The Idea of “Urban Open Space” Systems. MAIN STREET “THIRD PLACES” WHERE PEOPLE MEET CASUALLY, IN A PLEASANT SETTING. Downtown
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, CLIMATE CHANGE ARTICLES
Winter Garden’s Tucker Ranch Recreation Park and Nature Preserve
CT.org…The City of Winter Garden is the quintessential character town that continues to innovate and progress as a small city
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, CLIMATE CHANGE ARTICLES
Assessing the Global Climate in April 2022
Month tied as the fifth-warmest April on record for the globe The global surface temperature for April 2022 tied with
BOOKS
“Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis” by Daniel G. Parolek
OPTICOS DESIGN FOUNDER DANIEL PAROLEK inspired a new movement for housing choice in 2010 when he coined the term “Missing
BOOKS
“Backdoor Revolution: The Definitive Guide to ADU Development” by Kol Peterson
From CT.org Missing Middle Housing, a term invented by Dan Parolek [ https://islandpress.org/books/missing-middle-housing], has expanded the conversation about how people