Herman Kahn
Futurist “Herman Kahn was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part […]
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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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Bloomberg Carbon Clock January 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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What is Ocean Acidification?
From…Yale Center for Environmental Communication https://yaleclimateconnections.org/ What is ocean acidification? It’s a problem that threatens entire ecosystems. “In 2007, baby oysters
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Heat Island Effect
From the United States Environmental Protection Agency Heat islands are urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. Structures
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Affordable Housing: The “Transect”, ADUs and “Missing Middle” Housing.
THREE COMPLIMENTARY IDEAS. The Transect and Missing Middle Housing both rely on judgments about scale and intensity that lead to
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“Last Mile” Delivery Warehouses as Retail Tenants.
THE NEW SYSTEM DEMANDS. Logistics is one of many professional fields of work that is changing rapidly. The growing demand
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Makerspaces as Retail Tenants.
Makerspaces have been employed around America as places where people can congregate to learn a trade, perfect a skill and
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New Investments in Blighted Commercial Strips.
Turning Abandoned and Marginally Used Buildings into Successful Business Locations. Blighted Commercial Strips. The proverbial “federal” highway that leads into
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Character Towns as Entrepreneurial Cities.
Character Towns are Ideal Entrepreneurial Cities. Character towns are not just pretty places; when well designed, they accommodate innovators, social