Infrastructure Funding and Financing
A Comprehensive, Long-Range Municipal Finance Plan. THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET. A large part of the focus of every city administration is […]
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BOOKS
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Walkability of cities is an important element of every city’s plans for livability, transportation, recreationand neighborhoods. Walter Kulash and Dan
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Property Values and Sidewalks, 2018
Purpose: The Study compares the property value of homes on one side of the street with sidewalks to homes on
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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
BOOKS
The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre by Beth Shervey PhD
The Idea of Theaters in Small Cities and Towns. Exploiting remnant single screen theaters as venues for live performances or,
BOOKS, PROFILES OF PEOPLE TO KNOW
Uncertainty, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley
A seemingly unrelated book relative to planning and designingsmall cities and towns; however, not so fast. The “uncertainty principle” presents
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City Building in a Hot, Flat and Crowded Post-American World, by Fukuyama, Zakaria and Friedman
Three Views of Governance in the 21st Century: The three books, written before the Great Recession, resonate today. Messrs. Fukuyama,
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The Innovative, Tech-Driven Main Street.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS: A SAMPLER. Technological innovations are washing over society at an unprecedented pace. Previous generations may have felt the
Life Between Buildings, Using Public Space by Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl has put together an extended career doing urban workfocused on the human scale of cities…designing urban places
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The Authentic, Engaging and Social Main Street
THE PLACE WHERE COMMERCIAL, CIVIC AND RESIDENTIAL LIVES CONVERGE. Downtown’s focus is main street; the street with the commercial, office