Contents – January 2022

CONTENTS – January 2022

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• “The Power of Exhibitions and Fairs”…wck.
  • Overview
  • The CardboardBoat Regatta, New Richmond, OH
  • The Hopewell Interactive Sphere, St. Louis
  • The Miami Circle, Miami FL
  • Great Exhibition of the Works ofIndustry of All Nations, 1851, London.
  • The Great Central Fair of 1864, Philadelphia.
  • Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, Philadelphia.
•  “…electric vehicles listed as top priority by mayors in new U.S. Conference of Mayors report”.…US Conference of Mayors and American City & County magazine.
• “Infrastructure Can Be, Used to Be, Beautiful”, A Photo Essay Of Gas Stations On Highways…wck.
• “Why Co-Working Spaces Are Betting on the Suburbs”…from The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2021.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• “Electricity Explained” from…The U.S. Energy Information Administration.
• “First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved, Concerns about costs and safety remain, however”…Dave Levitan for Scientific American, Sept. 9, 2020
• “France’s Efficiency in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: What Can ‘Oui’ Learn?” from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through Nov 2021.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: “10 Female Urban Planners that deserve limelight” by Aditi Pancholi from Rethinking the Future.
• A Quintessential Character New Town…Poundbury, England.
• Video [21:18]: Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness, at TED 2010.
• Video [4:42]: How a Real Dog Taught a Robot Dog to Walk from WIRED, 2020.

BOOKS…

• A Natural History of the Future, What Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species, Rob Dunn, 2021, with a review in The New York Times by Peter Brannen, 12.9.21.
• Playing to Win, How Strategy Really Works, A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, 2013.
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, 2016.
• The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last. Kindle Edition, Tom Peters, 2018.