BOOK REVIEWS
Books are important. CharacterTowns.org selects and discusses current publications and works from previous generations that still hold wisdom for contemporary city-building. The review also includes published reviews and Youtube links to discussions by or about the author. Books are selected from the attached Suggested Readings.
The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre
by Beth Conway Shervey The Idea of Theaters in Small Cities and Towns. Exploiting remnant single screen theaters as venues […]
The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre by Beth Shervey PhD
The Idea of Theaters in Small Cities and Towns. Exploiting remnant single screen theaters as venues for live performances or, […]
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by Mr. Friedman examines the history of the world from […]
The Next Hundred Million, America in 2050
The Next Hundred Million, America in 2050 by Mr. Kotkin examines the future and finds that suburbs hold the key […]
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria has written thoughtfully and widely on geopolitics and global society. He also discusses issues in a refreshingly interactive way […]
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
A WORD FOR SOCIOLOGY. CharacterTowns.org is a big fan of sociology and sociologists. City planning cannot do justice to its […]
The Resilient City, How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
Small city and town planning benefits for the insights in this book. The Resilient City, How Modern Cities Recover from […]
The Resilient City. How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster by Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella
The Resilient City was published over ten years ago. It established a term, coined a phrase and set many cities into […]
The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream by Steve Case
FROM AMAZON… #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Steve Case, cofounder of America Online and Revolution and New York Times bestselling […]
The Sanitary City; Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present.
The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi, Ph.D. [2010], appreciates the history of water and sewerage systems as a major […]