Contents – September 2021
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…
- Resistance to Development Stands in the Way of Prosperity from…The San Francisco Chronicle and Planetizen, 2018.
- The Importance of High Schools:
- “A New High School Movement Rises” from Education Next by Bruno V. Manno.
- “When High Schools Shaped America’s Destiny” by Paul Beston
- The 2020 Census of Population is Out!
- “The Simplest Tool for Improving Cities Is Also Free” [Streets as Parks] from The New York Times by Sara Hendren, July 16, 2021.
- Why Rehabbed & Ready? from The Detroit Land Bank Authority with a video link.
- AIF Florida Water Forum 2021…Announcement.
- Glasgow Climate Change Conference announcement with August 2021 Reuters’ Summary of the UN International Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] Report.
- The Mind-Boggling History of City Recycling (500BC – Present) from https://RecycleCoach.com
- “Washington’s Oil Lobby Pivoted on Climate Change – and Made No One Happy” and “Oil Lobby Backs Climate Action Plan” from the Wall Street Journal.
- Bloomberg Carbon Clock, CO2 monthly readings through July 2021.
- Profile: John Nolan, City Planner.
- A Quintessential Character Place….Tavares FL
- C-SPAN Video [48:36]…Building Equitable Cities with former DHUD Secretary and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, 2018.
- Video [3:04]…Causes and Effects of Climate Change from National Geographic. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4H1N_yXBiA
- TED Video [17:48]…Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek and also a book by Portfolio; Illustrated edition, 2011.
BOOKS…
Your editor had the coincidental good luck of reading the following three books in rapid succession. They fit together like a glove and portray an America still in the “proof of concept” stage of evolution. The ULI 2008 Infrastructure Report is nostalgic.
- Arrival City, How the Largest Migration in History Reshaped Our World by Doug Saunders [dougsaunders.net], 2011.
- Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley by Margaret Pugh O’Mara [depts.washington.edu/history/people/34], 2005
- The Company Town, The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy by Hardy Green [hardygreen.com], 2010.
- The Urban Land Institute’s Infrastructure 2008, reads like today.
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