A Downtown Park – A Concept
Downtown Vision: Devote one corner at the “100% corner” to active public use; a place of immediate, casual observance of […]
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The Race for Oil
“Trump Administration Moves Closer To Allowing Oil Drilling In Arctic Refuge” The Trump administration is pushing ahead with plans to
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The Milne Ice Shelf
“Milne Ice Shelf: Satellites capture Arctic ice split” The Planet Earth-observation company has just released new imagery of the broken
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How America is Putting Itself Back Together by James and Deborah Fallows.
Published in The Atlantic, March 2016. The Tease. “Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What
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The Power of Exhibitions and Fairs to educate, promote economic development and enhance civic pride.
CELEBRATIONS. Every city and town has something to celebrate: an historic event, the birthday of a famous resident or a
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The City as Classroom, Education Outside the School House.
A CITY EDUCATION. Alvin Toffler once told an audience that more education was taking place in conference centers than school
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The Climate Change Series: Why Sea Level Matters.
In the United States, almost 40 percent of the population lives in relatively high population- density coastal areas, where sea
BOOKS
“What I Found in a Thousand Towns” by Dar Williams
The title tells the method, the book tells the whys and wherefores. “Positive proximity” is a big concept…”a state of
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Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements.
FROM CHARACTERTOWNS.ORG… This work may be a bit too academic for direct application to the issues facing small cities and
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City Managers, Civic Entrepreneurs.
“ICMA is the world’s leading association of professional city and county managers and other employees who serve local governments. City