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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Character Towns as Entrepreneurial Cities.
Character Towns are Ideal Entrepreneurial Cities. Character towns are not just pretty places; when well designed, they accommodate innovators, social
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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.
Greenville SC, A Quintessential Character Town.
GREENVILLE is the county seat of Greenville County in northwest South Carolina. Created in 1786, the county was named either
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
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, QUINTESSENTIAL CHARACTER TOWNS
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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“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
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
FROM AMAZON…“It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of