Ideal Neighborhood Character Blends Order, Uniqueness
Neighborhood character is incredibly important to overall perception of neighborhood quality. We’re not going to define this important community development […]
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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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Planning Census-designated Places.
Planning Unincorporated City-like Places like Cities. Many counties in the United States have areas of urban or suburban development with
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Vanishing yet vital: Western U.S. butterflies in decline
When the Edith’s checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha) reaches its next flower, a few of the tiny flecks of pollen stuck
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Study suggests trees are crucial to the future of our cities
EXCERPTS… “The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun. But when that single
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock June 2021
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of
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Reduce, reuse and recycle…recycling challenged.
From ChracterTowns.org…Florida Trend has constructed an excellent article of the efficacy of recycling. One conclusion is to put the emphasis
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Barton-Aschman Associates Inc.
“Barton-Aschman Associates Inc., founded in 1985, was one of those special planning firms with a dedicated staff, a strong ethical
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Four ways to make a city more walkable.
Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.
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THE BLOOMBERG CARBON CLOCK
May 2021 The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the
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The Causes of Climate Change
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the “greenhouse effect”1 —