Profile: Isaac Asimov, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Isaac Asimov is one of the world’s great thinkers; also, an active writer and educator. His thoughts on creativity are […]
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An interview with Thomas Friedman, “Why cities matter in an age of acceleration”.
“If you want to be an optimist, stand on your head. The world looks a lot better from the bottom
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A Quintessential Character Town…Sulphur Springs TX
Two years of collaborative planning produced a $6.3 million renewal of the rural city’s four-acre civic square and main streets.
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FINANCE STRATEGIES for SMALL CITIES and TOWNS.
THE IDEA OF A FINANCIAL STRATEGY. In business, this idea would be about the business model for the enterprise, a
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Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O’Mara
The premise is that the “cities of knowledge”, such as Silicon Valley, were not the result of random, market driven forces,
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“The Company Town, The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy” by Hardy Green
This is a big book. Story after story of exploitive towns, utopian towns, satellite industrial towns, and towns dominated, but
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ULI’s Infrastructure 2008.
“A reference that examines trends in transportation and road networks in the United States and abroad, this resource details how
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock July 2021
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of