Contents – December 2020
CONTENTS December 2020 Issue #155 IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS… Character Towns, A Preface Community Aesthetics Main Street’s […]
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PROFILES OF PEOPLE TO KNOW
City Planner – Edmund N. Bacon
CharacterTowns.org regards Ed Bacon among several planners in the post-war United States who set the tone for city planning and
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Envisioning a Town with Character.
The Idea of Vision. The vision of a character town is an image of the future in your mind; a
Urban Designer, Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl is a practicing Urban Design Consultant and Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen,
“Design with Nature 25th Edition” by Ian L. McHarg
FROM AMAZON… “In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise
BOOKS
How America is Putting Itself Back Together by James and Deborah Fallows.
Published in The Atlantic, March 2016. The Tease. “Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What
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The Neighborhood Sustainability Premise.
NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY. Equity. Neighborhood sustainability is achieved when the economic, social and physical aspects of the neighborhood are in balance
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Sustaining Character Neighborhoods.
VISION: NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY. A sustainable neighborhood has its physical, economic and social spheres of activity in balance. The neighborhood’s natural
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Neighborhoods are Important City Economic Assets.
A core asset of every character town is its neighborhoods. As the city pursues its vision of being a pleasant