Arbor Day Foundation Benefits of Trees
Benefits of Trees. LINK: https://www.arborday.org/trees/benefits.cfm Trees can add value to your home, help cool your home and neighborhood, break the […]
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The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future (Strong Ideas) by Ben Green
Implications for Character Towns: Be Careful. Character towns are usually smart cities. The smart enough city: putting technology in its
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Cities by Lawrence Halprin
Cities by Lawrence Halprin is one of those books from the 1960s when idealism in city planning was blooming, design was
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Main Street Parks and Plazas, Open Air “Third Places”
MAIN STREET “THIRD PLACES” WHERE PEOPLE MEET CASUALLY, IN A PLEASANT SETTING. Downtown parks and plazas are ideal “third places”.
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Strips by Michael D. Beyard and Michael Pawlukiewicz
The Mission. The ugly, marginalized, dangerous commercial corridors found in almost every town in America are valuable assets waiting to
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Designing Urban Corridors by Kirk R Bishop
The literature that addresses the needs of urban corridors is sparse. The classic study was authored in 1989 by Kirk
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Robots Take On the Final Mile
Robots Take On the Final Mile Imagine if the next time you place an order for delivery from your favorite
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Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns, Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability by Avi Friedman
“Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirdsof the world’s population and current modes of planningfor these municipalities are facing challenges
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel
JANE JACOBS’S STREET SMARTS. What the urbanist and writer got so right about cities—and what she got wrong.By Adam Gopnik “Jacobs, in
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Planning School Grounds for Outdoor Learning by Cheryl Wagner and Douglas Gordon, Hon. AIA
Almost every K–12 school has at least some outdoor space that faculty could use (or already do) to breathe life