Contents – September 2022

CONTENTS – September 2022

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• “A Holistic Open Space System, Connect Everything”…wck.
• “Small Cities and Towns Can be Global Cities”…wck.
• “This Is the Best Size for a Porch, Though any porch will do, really”, from: SOUTHERN LIVING, HOME, PORCHES by Katherine Owen
• DC Vibrant Retail Streets Toolkit from the District of Columbia Office of Planning, 2013.
• Index to archived Planning Articles.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage, Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization?” from… The New Yorker by Matthew Hutson
• “Finding and Resolving the Root Causes of the Sustainability Problem” using The Kuhn Cycle described by Thomas Kuhn in 1962 in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions suggested by gerry.purdy@mobilocity.biz.
• “Project Will Bring a Fully Functioning Natrium™ Power Plant to Retiring Coal Generation Site”.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through July 2022.
• Index to archived Climate Change Articles.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: Jan Gehl, Urban Designer.
• Quintessential Character Town…New Castle DE  
• Video: [5:38] City Parks: America’s New Infrastructure – Traffic and Transportation from the series offered by The City Parks Alliance.
• Video: [3:19 / 50:18] Biophilic Cities: Design for Planetary Health and Human Flourishing, 2.26.20 from the University of Georgia, College of Environmental Design
• Index to archived Special Features.

BOOKS…

• Inventor of the Future, The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, Alec Nevala-Lee, HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
• Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America, Quint Studer, Be the Bulb Publishing, Janesville WI, 2018.
• Design of Cities: Revised Edition, Edmund N. Bacon, The Penguin Group, NY, 1976.
• The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 194 pages, 1960.
• Index to archived Book Recommendations.