Lawrence Halprin, 1916 – 2009
Cities is one of those books from the 1960s when idealism in city planning was blooming, design was a valuable commodity, […]
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Four ways to make a city more walkable.
Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.
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What Makes a Good Main Street Work?
“Shortly before this essay’s original posting, I participated in a terrific conference called From Main Street to Eco-Districts: Greening Our
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Columbus GA, A Quintessential Character Town.
HISTORY. Columbus is a city in western Georgia some 100 miles southwest of Atlanta. Founded in 1828 by an act
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“The Firm, The Story of McKinsey and its Influence on American Business” by Duff McDonald
Purpose of the Firm. A book about a business consulting firm may seem off-point to the creation of a knowledge
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The 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.
From the ASCE “For the first time in 20 years, our infrastructure GPA is a C-, up from a D+
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“Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System” by Douglas S. Massey
From Amazon…“The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation.
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“Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath” by Ted Koppel
Implications for Small Cities and Towns. Electricity is the essential infrastructure in America’s economy and society. Small cities and towns have
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How Biden Can Free America From Its Zoning Strait jacket
By Edward L. Glaeser, NY Times “President Biden’s American Jobs infrastructure plan hopes to shake this country free of wasteful
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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