Governing the Character Town: The Town’s Equity Mechanism
THE SYSTEM. The system for governing a small city or town relies on the citizen-legislator to be the locally elected […]
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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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Downtown Mobility: Getting Anyone Anywhere at Anytime, Cheaply and Safely
DOWNTOWN MOBILITY. Downtowns host a wide variety of uses and activities. Access is all about mobility; mobility thrives on multiple
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Case Study: From a traffic stop to a new car seat, KCPD social services program showing success.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In December 2016, the Kansas City Police Department launched a pilot program to embed a social worker with
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Survey – Encore Careers
Lisa Dilts, founder of Compspring, in conjunction with Diane Trees, Ed.D., Associate Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Center for Regional Studies at the University of
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Systematize Everything
Downtown is a System of Systems. Main street businesses and districts have marketing systems, infrastructure systems, regulatory systems and organizational
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Herman Kahn “Futurist”
“Herman Kahn was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of
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Why Obsolete Warehouses on the ‘Last Mile’ Are Attracting Institutional Investors
Why Obsolete Warehouses on the ‘Last Mile’ Are Attracting Institutional Investors, a National Real Estate Investor Article Every $1 billion in
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THE ERA OF e-commerce, An NAIOP Article
Today’s industrial users are looking beyond rental rates to consider transportation and inventory carrying costs when making location decisions. THE
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Fastmile Delivery Service
FASTMILE goes the extra mile in last mile delivery services for business and residential packages. We have 2-person teams who can
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Robots Take On the Final Mile
Robots Take On the Final Mile Imagine if the next time you place an order for delivery from your favorite