Monthly Archive:: October 2003
Investing in the CoolTown ‘resort: Resort: A place frequented by people for relaxation or recreation Recreation: Refreshment
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The CoolTown ‘workplace resort village: The image above is a hint at what a CoolTown workplace resort
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Learning from resort main streets: Look ma, no cars! See yesterday’s blog to better understand why. Look
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Why are resort towns so pedestrian-oriented, so cool?: To answer that, it may be best to ask one of the
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Learning from an Italian resort: CoolTowns have two unlikely sources of inspiration. One is Italy, home of
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The Block, the Street and the Building: Today the blog focuses on the last of three key components of
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The Charter: The Neighborhood: Today the blog focuses on the second of three key components of
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The Charter of the New Urbanism: The Charter for the New Urbanism is essentially an executive summary followed
What does Smart Growth have to do with job growth?: A lot! Unfortunately, you wouldn’t know it by reading the mainstream press.
Grocery shopping – something for everyone: Three key attributes of CoolTowns are choice, convenience and diversity. That’s certainly
This is a Safeway?: Since just about every large-scale supermarket in today’s ultra-competitive grocery world is
The ‘good neighbor’ supermarket: Typically when a large-scale supermarket moves into a neighborhood it brings with
Investing in cool schools: OK, so there’s grand visions of what future CoolTown schools could be,
School trends helping CoolTowns: What if every sixth grader had a laptop? What if every seventh
It’s the schools, stupid!: While kids love people-oriented*, walkable, entertainment-rich towns, their “bosses” (parents) won’t have
Kids love cool towns too: Can a town designed by and for creatives, gen xers/yers and knowledge
Investing in local retail: If you’ve been tracking the local vs. national retail economic impact numbers,
Better than Target?: Target is easily the department store of choice by urbanites and creatives
Selling music – locally: The next generation of music buyers won’t be shopping at Wal-mart and