Amazon’s City of The Future
What if Amazon moved its shipping centers downtown? Where drones fly into the buildings to pick up deliveries. This drone […]
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“Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System” by Douglas S. Massey
From Amazon…“The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation.
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“Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath” by Ted Koppel
Implications for Small Cities and Towns. Electricity is the essential infrastructure in America’s economy and society. Small cities and towns have
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The Business Sector Worries about Affordable Housing.
CharacterTowns.org mined recent articles, focusing on affordable housing and concerns of the industrial sector. In all of the articles, the
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The Creativity Checklist
Planners’ Experiences, Thoughts and Skills Measuring creativity is difficult. The Creativity Checklist presents categories of experiences, thoughts and skills that
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Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
If you want to see an extensive and well-presented to-do list, check out President Biden’s Executive Order from January 27,
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How Biden Can Free America From Its Zoning Strait jacket
By Edward L. Glaeser, NY Times “President Biden’s American Jobs infrastructure plan hopes to shake this country free of wasteful
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The Business Sector Worries about Affordable Housing
CharacterTowns.org mined recent articles, focusing on affordable housing and concerns of the industrial sector. In all of the articles, the
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Smart Poles and Microgrids: The Bar Keeps Rising
THERE IS NO FINISH LINE. The literature, the examples and the case studies of cities across America and the
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THE BLOOMBERG CARBON CLOCK
Carbon dioxide pollution is the primary reason the Earth is warming. The number you will see is the estimates the