The Small Town Planning Handbook [2007].
This Handbook is very useful for all towns, and specifically for small towns. The contents include chapters on strategy, comprehensive planning, economic development planning, neighborhoods, downtowns and special districts covering all the relevant physical dimensions of city and town planning.
The General Plan for a Character Town organizes civic action and governance by integrating the social, economic and physical activities into
Urban Land Use Planning [1995].
Urban Land Use Planning, the book, has evolved and grown as a body of thought for over a half century. The Fourth Edition of Urban Land Use Planning presents the classic approaches to planning theory, city planning and practice. The Fourth Edition is chock full of tables and charts and checklists that provide the framework for comprehensive planning and planning for neighborhoods, downtowns, schools and parks. The fifth edition continues to improve the thought-process.
The city’s economy is designed as the power to harness and enhance the city through an economic policy that plans
Performance Management measures activities of the town government with the intent of improving performance; the best systems are not punitive,
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture [2000] by Ross King has given us a highly readable and fascinating story
Best Performing Cities is a report from the Milkin Institute [2014]. It reports where America’s jobs are created and sustained.
The Social Infrastructure Plan is an important part of The General Plan. It is designed to leverage economic and physical
Creative Thinking is a learned skill especially focused on the professions of law, medicine, architecture and planning. Creative thinking and systems
Sociable cities are generally character towns. The Social Business Report provides data and analysis on the factors that create settings for