Profile: Isaac Asimov, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Isaac Asimov is one of the world’s great thinkers; also, an active writer and educator. His thoughts on creativity are […]
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A Quintessential Character Town…Sulphur Springs TX
Two years of collaborative planning produced a $6.3 million renewal of the rural city’s four-acre civic square and main streets.
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FINANCE STRATEGIES for SMALL CITIES and TOWNS.
THE IDEA OF A FINANCIAL STRATEGY. In business, this idea would be about the business model for the enterprise, a
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Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O’Mara
The premise is that the “cities of knowledge”, such as Silicon Valley, were not the result of random, market driven forces,
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“The Company Town, The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy” by Hardy Green
This is a big book. Story after story of exploitive towns, utopian towns, satellite industrial towns, and towns dominated, but
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ULI’s Infrastructure 2008.
“A reference that examines trends in transportation and road networks in the United States and abroad, this resource details how
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Washington’s Oil Lobby Pivoted on Climate Change and Made No One Happy.
WASHINGTON—The American Petroleum Institute, Washington’s biggest lobby for the oil-and-gas industry, spent decades leveraging its financial muscle to fight almost
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Glasgow Climate Change Conference
Global warming is dangerously close to spiralling out of control, a U.N. climate panel said in a landmark report Monday,