Developing Affordable Housing: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations by Bennett L. Hecht
Although the face of America and those who live in it have changed in the past decade, the need for […]
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city planning
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness.
Fractals, like the Powers of Ten, is a concept seemingly unrelated to urban design and city planning. However, understanding natural
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Sustainable Urbanism…Sociology and the Social Sphere of Sustainability.
CharacterTowns.org is devoted to the ideas and ideals of sustainable urbanism and especially the social sphere of the sustainability system.
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Teach Yourself Sociology by Stephen Moore with Stephen P. Sinclair
Sociology is an incredibly important discipline in and of itself, but it is an especially important allied profession for the
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Complexity Theory Overview.
CharacterTowns.org, from time to time, has injected descriptions of scientific methods and theories into the discussion of city planning. The
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Systems Thinking.
THE CITY IS A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS PURPOSE: This is not a tutorial on “systems analysis”; it is notification that
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The Primacy of Neighborhoods.
NEIGHBORHOODS MATTER. The first responsibility of every city is to protect the homes and neighborhoods of its citizens. Neighborhood preservation,
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Porto Revival
Monocle films visits Porto, Portugal to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.” Vision
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America’s Social Infrastructure Is Falling Apart – The Atlantic by Eric Klinenberg
Worry Less About Crumbling Roads, More About Crumbling Libraries. Character towns rely on social infrastructure. America’s social infrastructure is falling
The Resilient City. How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster by Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella
The Resilient City was published over ten years ago. It established a term, coined a phrase and set many cities into