BOOKS
“City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture” by Arthur Drooker
FROM AMAZON…City Hall is the first book to feature striking contemporary images of the most architecturally significant city halls in
BOOKS
“Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature” by Douglas Farr
Mr. Farr has done a great service by linking sustainability and the New Urbanism. Of particular interest are the five attributes of
BOOKS
“The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet” by Michael E. Mann
CharacterTowns.org enjoyed an interview with Professor Mann on PBS as he was explaining the balance needed in the rhetoric surrounding
VIDEOS
Can We Make Cities Car Free?
Europe’s cities could get there soon. The US? Maybe not. Discussions of Oslo, Helsinki and other European cities provide great
VIDEOS
Central Florida Roadtrip
https://video.wucftv.org/show/central-florida-roadtrip/ CharacterTowns.org discovered the Central Florida Roadtrip while viewing WUCF and took the opportunity to meet with Dr. Hoffman to
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
A Quintessential Character Town: Harrodsburg KY.
HISTORY. First town west of the mountains, 1836. Settled by Daniel Boone and James Harrod. Harrodsburg is a free-standing town
Herman Kahn
Futurist “Herman Kahn was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Bloomberg Carbon Clock January 2021
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
What is Ocean Acidification?
From…Yale Center for Environmental Communication https://yaleclimateconnections.org/ What is ocean acidification? It’s a problem that threatens entire ecosystems. “In 2007, baby oysters