Main Street Mobility: Getting Anyone Anywhere Anytime, Safely and Cheaply.
Main Street Mobility. Downtowns and their main streets host a wide variety of uses and activities; they are totally dependent […]
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business
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Technology: the Disruptive Tsunami Headed for City Hall.
TECHNOLOGY FOR TOWNS. Small cities and towns are evolving beyond the fear of change to accept the benefits of newtechnologies
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Public Entrepreneurs, The Visionary Leaders and Risk-Takers of an Entrepreneurial City.
ENTREPRENEURS WANTED. Entrepreneurs are icons of the private sector, particularly the start-ups of the high tech world. As Mitchel Weiss
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The Main Street Hotel, A Threshold Achievement.
Hotels for Tourists and Businesses. Character towns have places for people to spend the night: hotels, inns and B&Bs. Small
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America’s Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age
by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle Hotels in small cities and towns have always been popular despite a
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Small Cities and Towns as Players in the Global Economy: The Character Town as an Entrepreneurial Town.
A vision that many small cities and towns may have is to be a participant in the global economy. With
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Startup Communities, Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City by Brad Feld
Brad Feld’s book offers a succinct, insightful and readable view into the world of entrepreneurs, the people that start, or
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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 andsociety. Small cities and towns have it
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Be Strategic, Leverage Every Main Street Asset
The place where commercial, civic and residential lives converge. Downtown’s focus is main street; the street with public buildings, gathering
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Strips by Michael D. Beyard and Michael Pawlukiewicz
The Mission. The ugly, marginalized, dangerous commercial corridors found in almost every town in America are valuable assets waiting to