CONTENTS – March 2021
CharacterTowns.org #158
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…
- Character towns as entrepreneurial cities.
- New Investments in Blighted Commercial Strips.
- Makerspaces as Retail Tenants.
- Last Mile Delivery Warehouses as Retail Tenants.
- Affordable Housing: The “Transect”, ADUs and “Missing Middle” Housing.
- From Bloomberg/CityLab… A case for turning empty malls into housing.
CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…
- From the United States Environmental Protection Agency…Heat Island Effect
- From …Arbor Day Foundation “Benefits of Trees”.
- From…Yale Center for Environmental Communication…“What is ocean acidification?”
- Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through January 2021.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Profile: Herman Kahn, Futurist.
- A Quintessential Character Town: Harrodsburg KY.
- Video: About “About Central Florida Roadtrip” from WUCF,
- Video [8:47]: Video: \”Can we make cities car free?\” on YouTube, OSLO watch.
BOOKS…
- City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture by Arthur Drooker (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania,192 pages, 2021.
- Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature by Douglas Farr, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey, 2008.
- The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 194 pages, 1960.
- The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann, PublicAffairs, 2021.