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Articles provided by wck planning and articles by others discuss a wide variety of issues and opportunities facing small cities and towns. Ideas matter and history helps with practical and conceptual ideas and information about cities, city planning and city-building. The Articles gallery of CharacterTowns.org presents papers that discuss issues and opportunities for those thinking and doing city-building.
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock – January 2022
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of
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A Reminder…The sources of greenhouse gases can be grouped into five categories
• Transportation is the biggest, perhaps electric vehicles will reduce this number, over time. Hydrogen is still on the list.
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Dahlonega, Georgia, A Quintessential Character Town.
CHARACTER. The City’s visitor-based economy depends on being and remaining an interesting, pleasant and prosperous place for residents, businesses and
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There’s a 750 Mile Bike Trail in New York.
From the New York Times “Last December, the Empire State Trail — a sprawling, 750-mile cyclist and pedestrian route that
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What is the future of urban life in the post-pandemic city?
“As an update to our previous Gensler City Pulse, we conducted a survey of 10 cities in February 2021 to
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Reading about Small Modular (Nuclear) Reactors – SMR’s
An Essential Component of a Comprehensive Energy Program. CT.org believes nuclear energy is one of the sustainable sources of energy
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Model Based Design, BIM as City Planning Technological Tools.
The March of Technology. Project designers have access to tools with capabilities that far exceed those available in the post-World
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Ekistics and Doxiadis
Following a Thread… Here’s a thought-journey for you. It starts with a headline to a NYT’s article – “When Architects