Contents – November 2022

CONTENTS – November 2022

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

Cities, small and large, build social cohesion, civic pride and community connections with libraries, museums, civic theaters and public galleries; this month we focus on libraries with their various roles and specialties:

• Specialty Libraries like The Mercantile Library in Cincinnati OH…wck.
• “Americans Go to the Library More Than Anywhere Else” from Emma Coleman, the assistant editor for Route Fifty.
• “Boston Public Library Considers Adding Apartments To 4 Library Branches” from…WGBH NEWS
• “Community Centered: 23 Reasons Why Your Library is the Most Important Place in Town” by Julie Biando Edwards, Melissa S. Rauseo & Kelley Rae Unger, 4.30.13.
• “Public Libraries as Business Incubators”, Phil Shapiro, PCWorld, 6.2.10 and “New role for public libraries: small business incubators”, Joe McKendrick, 2.19.13.
• Index to archived Planning Articles.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• “Finland prepares world’s first “nuclear tomb” from… freethink.com/, 5.17.22.
• “How protecting public lands can help the climate”, Yale Climate Connections, 8.24.22.
• “NOAA will spend $3 billion to fight climate change…” from kpbs, 7.18.22.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through Sept. 2022.
• Index to archived Climate Change Articles.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: Herman Kahn, Futurist
• Quintessential Character Town…Winter Garden FL
• Video: [6:11] How to revitalize a neighborhood — without gentrification…A TED Talk by Bree Jones • TED2022
• Video: [0:40] City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure – Multi-Use from City Parks Alliance.
• Index to archived Special Features.

BOOKS…

• Arbitrary Lines:  How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it.  M. Nolan Gray, Island Press, 2022.
• The Affordable City, Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There), https://www.charactertowns.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BR-The-Affordable-City.pdfShane Phillips, Island Press, 2020.
• Two Books from ULI: Regenerating Older Suburbs By Richard Peiser, Washington, D.C., ULI–the Urban Land Institute, 2007 and Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail by Michael D. Beyard, Michael Pawlukiewicz, and Alex Bond, Washington, D.C.: The Urban Land Institute, 2003.
• Index to archived Book Recommendations.