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Places |
My Favorite Places to
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Chicago, IL - Great
neighborhoods, parks, museums, and architecture.
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Savannah, GA -
Classic layout of blocks & squares. The first & the best. |
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Charleston, SC -
Great old streets, unique side-yard houses. |
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Greenville, SC -
Excellent Main Street area with lots of free entertainment. |
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Chattanooga, TN -
Great downtown & riverfront, emphasis on local. |
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Portland, OR - Short
blocks, adaptive reuse, transit & TOD. |
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Salt Lake City, UT -
Simple layout, clean & safe, density, transit & nature. |
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Starkville, MS -
(seriously!) The Cotton District = the best student rentals. |
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New Orleans, LA -
The Quarter, Garden District, great food & music. |
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Oxford, MS - College
town, The Square is classic "Small Town America" |
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Milwaukee, WI - The
"City of Festivals" comes alive in the summer. |
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*I have spent
very little time in DC, and never been to Boston or San Francisco |
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Books |
Explaining cities and explaining "community" |
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Death & Life of Great American Cities
- Jane Jacobs |
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Suburban Nation,
Rise and Fall of the American Dream - Andres Duany |
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A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
- Philip Langdon |
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Rise of the Creative Class -
Richard Florida |
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Real Estate & Investing |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad -
Robert Kiyosaki |
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The Cashflow
Quadrant - Robert Kiyosaki |
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General
Business... as in Operations and Marketing |
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The E-Myth - Michael
Gerber |
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The Long Tail -
Chris Anderson |
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Duct Tape Marketing
- John Jantsch |
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Andrew Carnegie and
the Rise of Big Business - Harold Livesay |
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Philosophy |
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Zen and The Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig |
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Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand |
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The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand |
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Place-Based History |
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Devil in the White
City - Eric Larsen - Follows a killer in Chicago during the 1983 World's
Fair |
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Almost anything by
Horatio Alger, Jr. set in New York City |
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Websites |
Cities / Urban
Planning / Real Estate |
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CoolTown Studios -
Outstanding blog about cities, buildings, economics, and "places" |
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City of Auburn GIS
Department - Interactive maps of Auburn |
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Google Maps - The
best free mapping & routing available |
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Google Earth - Think
Google Maps with buildings and tons of geo-coded links |
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LoopNet
- Online commercial property listings |
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Making a
Difference in your Community |
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CreateHere - A
force for positive change in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Audio |
Music |
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Pearl Jam Live
- Excellent quality free recordings of every Peal Jam Concert since 1990 |
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Podcasts |
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The
Kunstler Cast -
Weekly discussion of urban design, cities, politics, and economics |
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Human Scale - A great example of what these podcasts discuss |
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Video |
TED Conference YouTube Channel (TED =
Technology, Entertainment & Design) |
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Short (10-20
minutes), presentations on groundbreaking / cutting edge topics in almost
any field. Presentations are done by the leaders in their field, and
explained in layman's terms. Sort of. |
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Urban Planning & Cities |
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Andres Duany Lectures |
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Planning & Growth Lecture - Part
1 of 9 (all parts available on YouTube) |
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Smart Growth Keynote Summit -
Part 1 of 7 (all parts available on YouTube) |
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On the Edge: Latest views from Andres Duany |
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James Howard Kunstler Lecture |
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The Tragedy of Suburbia - TED
Lecture |
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Richard Florida Lecture |
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The Rise of the Creative Class |
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Programs |
Everyday
Essentials - Most are FREE! |
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Carbonite -
Automatic, off-site backup, with unlimited storage space. under $60 a year
- GET IT! |
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SketchUp -
Free 3D drawing & modeling program |
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GIMP - Free graphic
editing program, similar to photoshop |
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Picasa - Free photo
editing software from Google |
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LogMeIn - Free
remote access to your desktop computer from anywhere |
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PDF995 - Free PDF
maker. Installs as a printer, select it to print any document as PDF |
