The Bloomberg Carbon Clock
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph on […]
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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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Vision-Driven Strategy
The Idea of Vision-Driven Strategy. A strategy is the general idea one has about how to implement a vision. Essentially,
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Main Street’s Active Zones: “Not Too Tall, Not Too Long”
THE ORLANDO REGION’S CHARACTER MAIN STREETS. The five county Orlando Region is fortunate to have many small cities and towns with
The Character Town, A Preface.
A Character Town is an Emotional Experience. There is a hometown in our minds where we want to live, to
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Miami’s Underline snags a $22M grant.
Now its new phase can be built in Coral Gables. What is the Underline park and what will it look
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock
May 1974 to the Present: Mauna Loa Observatory average CO2 record, maintained by NOAA. The monthly values reflect the cyclical
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Extreme events ‘presage worse to come’ in a warming climate
From Yale Climate Connections. Increased fatalities, pain, and costs provide a compelling case for taking action on climate change, three
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Community Aesthetics.
THE IDEA OF BEAUTY. Beauty is of paramount value in many cultures. Everything is designed with both function and beauty
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Columbus, Indiana
THE TOWN. Columbus was settled in the 1820s; incorporated on June 28, 1864. The City has a population approaching 50,000.
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Russia’s Siberian Waters See Record Ship Traffic as Ice Melt Accelerates
From the Wall Street Journal The Arctic has gone through its warmest summer on record, and with the ice melting,