Worry Less About Crumbling Roads, More About Crumbling Libraries. Character towns rely on social infrastructure. America’s social infrastructure is falling […]
The Resilient City was published over ten years ago. It established a term, coined a phrase and set many cities into
Introduction. Less Plastic is an organization founded by people concerned about the permanence of plastic in our oceans. Their book, Plastic Game
The Issue Character towns and small cities can prevent and reduce plastics in their waste stream. Plastics have enriched us
Implications for Character Towns: Be Careful. Character towns are usually smart cities. The smart enough city: putting technology in its
Implications for Small Cities and Towns. Electricity is the essential infrastructure in America’s economy andsociety. Small cities and towns have it
Cities by Lawrence Halprin is one of those books from the 1960s when idealism in city planning was blooming, design was
MAIN STREET “THIRD PLACES” WHERE PEOPLE MEET CASUALLY, IN A PLEASANT SETTING. Downtown parks and plazas are ideal “third places”.
The design and content of nine Central Florida’s Character Main Streets reveals important attributes that entitles these small cities to
Ray Kurzweil is one of our best thinkers about artificial intelligence. The Age of Spiritual Machines, while 20 years old, presents Kurzweil’s