CONTENTS – September 2023
THE QUINTESSENTIAL CHARACTER TOWN EDITION
SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS WITH CHARACTER
- “Envisioning a Town with Character”…wck.
- “Factors that Determine Character”…Assembled from selected Authors Below.
- Profiles of Towns with Character:
MEDIA
- Porto Revival…from Monocle films.
- 7 principles for building better cities…from Peter Calthorpe.
- 4 ways to make a city more walkable…from Jeff Speck.
- About Central Florida Roadtrip, A Model…from WUCF.
- Amazon’s City of The Future…Amazon.
- Capturing the next economy: Pittsburgh’s rise as a global innovation city… Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution
FROM THE PLANNERS\’ BOOKSHELF…
- For the Love of Cities, The Love Affair Between People and Their Places, Peter Kageyama, Creative City Productions, 2011.
- What I Found in a Thousand Towns, A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities – One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike at a Time, Dar Williams, Basic Books, NY, 2017.
- The Great Good Places, Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community ,Ray Oldenburg, Marlowe & Company, New York, 1999.
- How America is Putting Itself Back Together, James Fallows with Deborah Fallows, Published in The Atlantic, March 2016.
- How Paris Became Paris, The Invention of the Modern City, Joan DeJean, Bloomsbury, New York, 2014.
- Design of Cities: Revised Edition, Edmund N. Bacon, The Penguin Group, NY, 1976.
- The Resilient City, How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster, Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella, Oxford University Press, 2005.