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“The Excellence Dividend” by Tom Peters
Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last The inimitable Tom Peters has produced another thought
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Electricity explained
Electricity in the United States is produced (generated) with diverse energy sources and technologies The United States uses many different
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The Innovative Cities Lecture Series, Tom Mortensen
Review various site planning and design techniques, approaches, principles, successes, pitfalls, and roadblocks to designing Green Infrastructure. How do historical
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Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
“Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
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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“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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Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O’Mara
The premise is that the “cities of knowledge”, such as Silicon Valley, were not the result of random, market driven forces,
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Companies using 3D printing to build houses at ‘half the time for half the price
https://www.today.com/home/companies-using-3d-printing-build-houses-half-cost-t217164 A 3D printer can build the walls of a house in as little as two days versus weeks or