‘Everything Going the Wrong Way’: Dollar Stores Hit a Pandemic Downturn
Another interesting and revealing article from The New York Times. It seems Dollar Stores in all their manifestations are not […]
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Smart Growth in Small Towns and Rural Communities
Small towns and rural communities throughout the United States are looking for ways to strengthen their economies, provide better quality
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IN DEFENSE OF HOUSING
SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE THE BACKBONE OF AMERICAN ASPIRATIONS – SO WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE OPPOSE THEM? A critical
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Howard T. Odum
Howard Thomas Odum (Sept. 1, 1924 – Sept. 11, 2002), usually cited as H. T. Odum, was an American ecologist.
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A Quintessential Character Town: Palatka, Florida.
Palatka with its downtown civic buildings, museums, hotel and parks in the midst of its historic and affordable neighborhoods is
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Five Principles of Urban Economics.
Things we know and things we don’t know from Mario Polese, City Journal. CharacterTowns.org came upon this great discussion of
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Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America
by Quint Studer “Every community wants to become a great place to live and work. The why is no mystery: We
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
by Charles L. Marohn Jr. From the Back Cover, from Amazon… “The costs of the North American transportation system are too
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“Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation”
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler From Amazon….“Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more
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THE BLOOMBERG CARBON CLOCK
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of