CONTENTS – April 2021
CharacterTowns.org #159
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…
- New Downtown Retail and Restaurant Site Design Factors…wck
- “Five Principles of Urban Economics, Things we know and things we don’t know”. From City Journal, LINK: https://www.city-journal.org/html/five-principles-urban-economics-13531.html
- Small City Dashboards, Small Cities can be Smart Cities…wck
- Affordable Housing Policies and Programs, State and Local…wck
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…
- globalwarmingindex.org on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:34:04 GMT.
- From Yale Center for Environmental Communication, “Clock is running on our reliance on vegetation as a steady \’carbon sink\’”by Kristen Pope on Mar 18, 2021
- “Developing large-scale urban tree canopy initiative\”, City of Orlando’s 2040 of having a 40% tree canopy.
- Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through February 2021.
SPECIAL FEATURES…
- Profile: Sociobiologist, E.O. Wilson.
- A Quintessential Character Town…Columbus IN.
- Video [5:08]: SUNTRAX, America’s new center for transportation innovation in Florida.
- Video [5:48] Connected + Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Technology.
BOOKS…
- Better Together, Restoring the American Community, Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2003.
- Design with Nature, 25th Edition, Ian L. McHarg, Natural History Press, 1971, then by John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
- For the Love of Cities, The Love Affair Between People and Their Places, Peter Kageyama, Creative City Productions, 2011.
- The Great Lakes Water Wars, 2nd Edition, Peter Annin, Island Press; 2nd edition 2009, Paperback 2018