Best Cities for TDM
Best Cities forTDM reflects the fact that many American cities have extensive TDM programs that promote multi-modal mobility to all […]
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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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Livability.COM
Livability is a great source for information about what makes small cities great places to live. “The best downtowns foster
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Character Towns in Central Florida: A Ten-Town Review
Ten “character towns” in Central Florida were selected for continuing study. . This article presents the idea of the downtowns
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The Best Small to Mid-sized Cities in the U.S.
The Best Small to Mid-sized Cities in the U.S. reports the findings of Livability’s second on the subject. The criteria used
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The General Plan for a Character Town
The General Plan for a Character Town organizes civic action and governance by integrating the social, economic and physical activities into
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The City’s Economy: Plan for Prosperity
The city’s economy is designed as the power to harness and enhance the city through an economic policy that plans
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Performance Management; The System for Learning and Innovation Organizations
Performance Management measures activities of the town government with the intent of improving performance; the best systems are not punitive,
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The 2014 Best-Performing Cities Report
Best Performing Cities is a report from the Milkin Institute [2014]. It reports where America’s jobs are created and sustained.
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The Social Infrastructure Plan; An Aspiration of the City’s General Plan
The Social Infrastructure Plan is an important part of The General Plan. It is designed to leverage economic and physical
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Critical Thinking; Attributes of Creative Thought
Creative Thinking is a learned skill especially focused on the professions of law, medicine, architecture and planning. Creative thinking and systems