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City Schools, A Partnership Between the City and the School Board

wck|planning / September 4, 2014

City Schools is an approach that reflects the concept of city governments having responsibility for the education of their children and […]

wck|planning / September 2, 2014

Power Failure [2006] is a terrific analysis of the process whereby a prosperous town deteriorated into a failed city due to

wck|planning / September 1, 2014

Best Cities for High Schools were ranked by U.S. News and World Report. The results are important because of the

The City’s Urban Open Space System is the town’s main tool for unifying the community. It is the primary source

Character towns can benefit from Toffler’s work.The Third Wave; The Classic Study of the Future was written by Alvin Toffler

Developing Sustainable Planned Communities [2007] offers useful insights to small cities and towns about what features are important to communities

Park systems evaluated by ParkScore can benefit from the process. ParkScore is a project of The Trust for Public Land,

Urban Infrastructure Systems in character towns recognize that modern infrastructure critical to a successful community can also be a visual

City Building in a Hot, Flat and Crowded Post-America World is an essay based on a review of three books.

A Strategy for Creating Character Towns is vision-driven. Character towns are the result of much love and careful nurturing of