Tenement Museum
Museums are our windows into lives beyond ourselves. Museums give us a glimpse of people, places and events beyond our […]
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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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URBAN PARKS: Programming Areas and Facilities.
The Vision of an urban park. Urban parks are places of significant size and location that offer respite to city
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What Makes a Good Main Street Work?
“Shortly before this essay’s original posting, I participated in a terrific conference called From Main Street to Eco-Districts: Greening Our
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Urban tissue and the character of towns
From Semantic Scholar This paper is concerned with the question of identifying and describing the general and historical character of
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock April 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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Nothing captures a small town’s character, soul and past like its museum
CharacterTowns.org has long said that local history museums are one of the central assets of every small city and town.
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NOAA’s Updated U.S. Climate Data Will Establish “New Normal”
“NOAA will soon release a much-anticipated update of U.S. climate data for placing recent weather conditions—such as heat waves and
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Earth’s Cryosphere Is Vital for Everyone. Here’s How NASA Keeps Track of Its Changes.
Due to ice’s important role in the Earth system, NASA is committed to studying it extensively. Everything on our planet
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Columbus GA, A Quintessential Character Town.
HISTORY. Columbus is a city in western Georgia some 100 miles southwest of Atlanta. Founded in 1828 by an act
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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