ARTICLES
The Original Articles archives of CharacterTowns.org presents papers that discuss practical and conceptual ideas for designing, building and managing character towns and small cities that are interesting, pleasant and prosperous places for residents, businesses and visitors.
The Bloomberg Carbon Clock June 2021
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of […]
The Bloomberg Carbon Clock November 2021
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of […]
The Bloomberg Carbon Clock September
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of […]
The Business Sector Begins to Worry about Affordable Housing.
CharacterTowns.org mined two recent concurrent articles focusing on affordable housing and concerns of the industrial sector. The concurrent Articles are […]
The Business Sector Worries about Affordable Housing.
CharacterTowns.org mined recent articles, focusing on affordable housing and concerns of the industrial sector. In all of the articles, the […]
The Case for Special Neighborhood Districts.
MAKE “SPECIAL DISTRICTS” SPECIAL. A neighborhood district, as a legal and geographically specific entity has the opportunity to control its […]
The Causes of Climate Change
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the “greenhouse effect”1 — […]
The Causes of Climate Change
A simplified animation of the greenhouse effect. Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the […]
The Character Main Street
A VISION FOR MAIN STREET: SOCIAL. Main street has done a lot for America; and more will be asked of […]
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 […]
The Cities Form and Function 2018.
PONDERING AN IMPONDERABLE. Demographics, basic human needs, our social contract and technology will determine the form and function of cities […]
The City as Classroom, Education Outside the School House.
A CITY EDUCATION. Alvin Toffler once told an audience that more education was taking place in conference centers than school […]
The City’s Business Model
A Comprehensive, Long-Range City Finance Plan. SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS: A Professional Accounting Viewpoint. CharacterTowns.org has taken the accounting […]
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 […]
The City’s Form and Function – 2015: A Model for a Sustainable Character Town
The city’s form and function is based on sustainability theory tells us to balance and cross-leverage the social, economic and […]
The City’s Form and Function – 2015: A Model for a Complete City based on Sustainable Urbanism
The City’s Form and Function essay in 2014 presented the form and function of a character town in light of […]
The City’s Form and Function – 2016
The City’s Form and Function – 2016: A Model for Small Cities and Towns discusses a sustainable model for small […]
The Climate Change Series: Global Warming Index
The global warming index is one on many interests measuring the impact of climate change. On June 2, 2020 [say […]