The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is a great guide for those interested in […]
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The Downtown Infill and Redevelopment Process
The Downtown Infill and Redevelopment Process is useful in enticing vision-consistent developers to invest in the downtowns of small cities
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Site Analysis: A Checklist
Site Analysis, A Checklist, presents a worksheet to use when evaluating the developability of a parcel of land. This checklist
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More Employees; Fewer, More Flexible “Offices”
More Employees; Fewer, More Flexible “Offices” presents information about the current trend in office space utilization. Lisa Dilts, COMPSPRING, has
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Top 50 Cities for Global Trade
Top 50 Cities for Global Trade published by Global Trade Magazine presents the evolution of global cities. The article can
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Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis
Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis by Mark Hinshaw, [Planners Press, American Planning Association, 170 pages, 1999] was inspired by Neal Peirce’s
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Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World by Neal R. Peirce with Curtis W. Johnson and John Stuart Hall
Summary. Peirce, Johnson and Hall resurrect a concept from the past, the concept of city-states with a history that starts with
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Public Entrepreneurs: The Visionary Risk-Takers of an Entrepreneurial City
Public Entrepreneurs: The Visionary Risk-Takers of an Entrepreneurial City describes the role of the city officials and institutional leaders who
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The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2015 by the Smithsonian
(Image © David C. Phillips/Garden Photo World/Corbis; graphic by Shaylyn Esposito) The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2015
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St. Louis, The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape
St. Louis , The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape, [2001] describes a city that was once among the “first