Contents – December 2021

CONTENTS – December 2021

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• City of Chicago’s first-ever Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Policy Plan developed in collaboration with Elevate Chicago, 2020.
• The Future of Small Cities Institute.
• “Wrestling Public Benefits from Derelict and Neglected Roads, Rails and Rivers”…wck.
  • High Line, NYC
  • Underline, Miami
  • Promenade Plantée, Paris
  • Riverwalk, San Antonio
  • The Bentway, Toronto
  • Swiss River Canal, near Geneva
  • The Beltline, Atlanta
  • The West Orange Trail, Winter Garden

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• National Climate Report – September 2021 from NOAA.
• “Good readings for getting up to speed on methane” from Yale Climate Connections, October 22, 2021.
• FY 2013-2026 EPA Strategic Plan, draft.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through Oct 2021.

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

• Infrastructure can be Beautiful

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: Paul Davidoff, 1930-1984, early leader in advocacy planning.
• A Quintessential Character Place…New Richmond OH.
• Video: “Nature Ignores Design That Ignores Nature: Observing Natural and Historic Patterns for Site Planning, Native Landscape, and Green Infrastructure” presentation by Tom Mortensen, PLA, ASLA, a site planner and landscape architect with raSmith.
• Video: Powers of Ten™ (1977) – YouTube @ www.eamesoffice.com

BOOKS…

• The City Beautiful Movement, William H. Wilson, 1989.
• FLOW, The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 2021, reviewed by Carol Travis, 1990 in the New York Times article “CONTENTMENT IS HARD WORK”.
• Site Analysis: A Contextual Approach to Sustainable Land Planning and Site Design 2nd Edition, James A. LaGro Jr., 2007.
• US EPA’s Climate Adaptation Plan: October 2021 (pdf)