Contents – February 2021

CONTENTS

February Issue #157

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• Social Network Theory and City Planning.
• Small City and Town Economic Policy.
• High Performance Development Corridors: What to do with Ugly Commercial Strips.
• Affordable Housing: An Approach for Creating and Keeping an Affordable Housing Inventory.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• From NASA in 2012…“The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas: Lessons for Tomorrow.”
• Russia in the Arctic.
• NOAA’s “2020 Arctic Report Card”.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through December 2020.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Profile: City Planner, Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia.
• A Quintessential Character Town…Winter Garden FL.
• Video [1:06:17]: William McDonough presents The Upcycle discussing the implementation of his sustainability ideas from Cradle to Cradle.
• Video [4:11]: City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure – Overview.

BOOKS…

• City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Donald L. Miller, Touchstone, New York, 1996.
• Missing Middle Housing, Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis, Daniel G. Parolek, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2020.
• Parks and Recreation System Planning, A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities, David L. Barth, PhD, 2020.
• Plastic Game Changer: How to Reduce Plastic in your Organization to Make a Difference to Plastic Pollution, Amanda Keetley, Less Plastic, 2019.