Contents – September 2023

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:
  • Fairhope AL 
  • Columbus IN 
  • Dahlonega GA 
  • Greenville SC 
  • Winter Garden FL 
  • New Richmond OH 
  • Harrodsburg KY 
  • Sulphur Springs TX 
  • New Castle DE 

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.