GENERAL & STRATEGIC PLANS
Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500 Billion “City of the Future”
Called “Telosa,” the urban center could potentially house up to five million residents somewhere in the American Southwest While other billionaires are jockeying to get into space, Marc Lore has his eyes on planet Earth: The former Walmart exec has announced plans to create a new utopian city in the American desert, featuring self-driving cars […]
Whitewater Parks
The Hypothetical. Communities are generally looking for ways to distinguish themselves for the benefit of their residents and businesses. Historic sites and persons are exploited as are natural features. Visitor attracting playgrounds and theme parks serve the purpose…the purpose being to bring outside money into the local economy. And, by the way, provide an interesting, […]
With historic federal investment incoming, regions must collaborate on planning.
From Brookings CT.org…Brookings calls for regional planning as a gateway to federal funds. Usually, CT.org provides an introductory paragraph from a useful article with a link to the balance, but this one is so timely, the entire article is provided below. Thanks to historic commitments by Congress and resilient local economies, the next five years […]
‘Everything Going the Wrong Way’: Dollar Stores Hit a Pandemic Downturn
Another interesting and revealing article from The New York Times. It seems Dollar Stores in all their manifestations are not only a blight on downtown main streets, but their business model doesn’t work when under stress…the unfortunate lose-lose. “Their business model is being tested by worker burnout, pressure to raise wages, supply chain problems and […]
“13 books and reports on science, impacts, solutions, and actors” from Yale Climate Connections
Memorial Day Weekend typically triggers a change in expectations. Afterwards, Americans expect to be baked by summer’s rising temperatures. With that seasonal metaphor in mind, this month’s bookshelf offers a baker’s dozen of titles on the science, history, geography, politics, social ethics, technology, and psychology of climate change. FacebookTweetLinkedInEmail
“A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future” by Daniel C. Esty
FROM AMAZON: Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and […]
“A Brief History of Earth” by Andrew H. Knoll
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome […]
“A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century” by Witold Rybczynski
From Amazon “In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. “We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes—among them, New York’s Central Park, California’s […]