Contents – June 2023

CONTENTS – June 2023

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

Character towns, small and large, build social cohesion, community connections, civic pride and institutional trust with strong neighborhoods, successful development corridors, superior schools and inviting downtowns where residents, businesses and civic assets are functional, accessible and beautiful. The May’23 edition focused on neighborhoods and “bounced back” from many on the distribution list. In response, the Jun’23 edition repeats May’s content with several new articles.

• A Co-Work Space Policy for Small Towns…wck.
• Why Are Remote Corporate Workers Having More Fun? Co-Working Spaces…from The New York Times.
• Great Neighborhoods, A Commitment to Primacy…wck.
• Superior Public Schools, Towns are Teachers…wck.
• Parks, Plazas, Trails and Open Spaces…wck.
• Multiple Benefits of Co-Located Neighborhood Venues…wck.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES

CharacterTowns.org has presented many ideas and articles that identify actions that can be taken by small cities and towns to address climate change challenges, including…

• Her Plan for Putting the World Back Together? Trees… From The New York Times.
• Generators of Greenhouse Gases from… https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
• Green Innovation at Phipps from Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.
• U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022 from Yahoo! Finance, 3.27.23.
• Solar investment outshines oil: IEA…from Yahoo! Finance, 5.25.2023
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 Monthly Readings through April 2023.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profiles of People to Know…Paul Davidoff, 1930-1984, Crusader.
• Portfolio of Quintessential Character Towns…Tavares FL
• Video [17:48] Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek, 12.27.11.
• Video [25:01] Capturing the Next Economy: Pittsburgh’s rise as a global innovation city” with Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution, 2017.
• Video [18:37] 4 ways to make a city more walkable, Jeff Speck, 3.2.17.

FROM THE PLANNERS’ BOOKSHELF…

• Mirror for Man: The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life, (Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology), 1949, Clyde Kluckhohn, introduced by Andrea Smith.
• Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World by Ross Chapin with forward by Sarah Susanka, Taunton Press; First Edition, 2011.
• The Great Reset, How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida [www.creativeclass.com/Richard_florida], HarperCollins, 2010.