Contents – March 2022

CONTENTS – March 2022

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• “Ekistics and Doxiadis”…wck.
• “Model Based Design, BIM as City Planning Technological Tools”… Brent Lacy/VHB, Matt Allen/FCA, wck.
• “There’s a 750 Mile Bike Trail in New York”…The New York Times, 11.5.21.
• “What is the future of urban life in the post-pandemic city?”…Gensler, 2021.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• Readings about Small Modular [Nuclear] Reactors, SMRs, An Essential Component of a Comprehensive Energy Program…wck.
  
  • From…Rolls Royce, The SMR programme.
  • From…Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
  • From…Scientific American, First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved.
  • From…Wikipedia, Small modular reactors.
  • From…The World Nuclear Association, Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors.
  • From… Our World in Data, What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
  • From…Medium, Towards a different future: Small Modular Reactors.
  • From…Yale’s Climate Connections, What role for small modular nuclear reactors in combating climate change?
  • From…Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, France’s Efficiency in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: What Can ‘Oui’ Learn?
• Reminder: the Sources of GHGs and Sources of Energy for Electricity…from EPA and EIA.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through January 2022.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis [1913-1975], the visionary city planner from The New York Times, 7.29.75.
• A Quintessential Character Town…Dahlonega GA.
• Video [9:28]: Urban Age Debates | Changing Cultures | Cities in the 2020s, UrbanAge, Dec 15, 2021.
• Video [12:06]: “Why millennials should move to smaller cities and towns”… from TED, March 2017.

BOOKS…

• A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, Witold Rybczynski, 1999.
• Power Failure: Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York, Diana Dillaway, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 266 pages, 2006.
• Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics By Michael Barone, 2013.
• The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Schurman, 2022.