Herman Kahn
Futurist “Herman Kahn was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part […]
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“Last Mile” Delivery Warehouses as Retail Tenants.
THE NEW SYSTEM DEMANDS. Logistics is one of many professional fields of work that is changing rapidly. The growing demand
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New Investments in Blighted Commercial Strips.
Turning Abandoned and Marginally Used Buildings into Successful Business Locations. Blighted Commercial Strips. The proverbial “federal” highway that leads into
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Small City and Town Economic Policy
POWER. Local governments may not realize they have the power and obligation to have an economic policy for their town.
Urban Designer, Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl is a practicing Urban Design Consultant and Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen,
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Main Street’s Active Zones: “Not Too Tall, Not Too Long”
THE ORLANDO REGION’S CHARACTER MAIN STREETS. The five county Orlando Region is fortunate to have many small cities and towns with
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Miami’s Underline snags a $22M grant.
Now its new phase can be built in Coral Gables. What is the Underline park and what will it look
BOOKS
“A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future” by Daniel C. Esty
FROM AMAZON: Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate
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Community Aesthetics.
THE IDEA OF BEAUTY. Beauty is of paramount value in many cultures. Everything is designed with both function and beauty
BOOKS
“A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century” by Witold Rybczynski
From Amazon “In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me