Contents – March 2021

CONTENTS – March 2021

CharacterTowns.org #158

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• Character towns as entrepreneurial cities.
• New Investments in Blighted Commercial Strips.
• Makerspaces as Retail Tenants.
• Last Mile Delivery Warehouses as Retail Tenants.
• Affordable Housing: The “Transect”, ADUs and “Missing Middle” Housing.
• From Bloomberg/CityLab… A case for turning empty malls into housing.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• From the United States Environmental Protection Agency…Heat Island Effect
• From …Arbor Day Foundation “Benefits of Trees”.
• From…Yale Center for Environmental Communication…“What is ocean acidification?”
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through January 2021.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Profile: Herman Kahn, Futurist.
• A Quintessential Character Town: Harrodsburg KY.
• Video: About “About Central Florida Roadtrip” from WUCF,
• Video [8:47]: Video: “Can we make cities car free?” on YouTube, OSLO watch.

BOOKS…

• City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture by Arthur Drooker (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania,192 pages, 2021.
• Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature by Douglas Farr, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey, 2008.
• The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 194 pages, 1960.
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann, PublicAffairs, 2021.