Main Street “Activity Zones”.
New Downtown Retail and Restaurant Site Design Factors. The “Active Zone” of Shops and Restaurants. Whether you are worried about […]
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shopping
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DC Vibrant Retail Streets Toolkit
An After Thought on the 2013 Workshop from CT.org. The City issued an RFQ to solicit neighborhood organizations interested in
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Microgrids and Power Resiliency for Data Centers: Myth Busting and Exploring New Solutions.
From CT.org…This notice is for a webcast that has passed. It sounds interesting. Theconference is not the reason for presenting
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Cycling for Sustainable Cities
Edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, The MIT Press, 2021. “Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel,
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New Downtown Retail and Restaurant Site Design Factors
The New Active Zone of Shops and Restaurants. Whether you are worried about the new normal, returning to the old
The Character Town, A Preface.
A Character Town is an Emotional Experience. There is a hometown in our minds where we want to live, to
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From Bloomberg CityLab…A case for turning empty malls into housing.
A case for turning empty malls into housing. Second life: In the Lynnwood suburb of Seattle, developers are turning a
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Kunshan Phoenix Cultural Mall
Phoenix Publishing and Media Group (PPMG), the largest media and publishing companies in China, awarded Joel Sanders Architect and FreelandBuck
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The San Antonio Riverwalk
The downtown loop of the famed San Antonio Riverwalk, or Paseo del Rio, is a 2 1/2 mile stretch of
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High-End Culture Comes to Shopping Malls
CharacterTowns.org enjoys the cross-overs between commerce and culture. The following article from the New York Times offers another example where