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Pearl Street and the Crossroads Mall (below) on the same day. Boulder, Colorado.

The Geography of Nowhere - II  Peruse

06 Joyride

• Electric trolley system opens in Yakima on December 25, 1907, History Link
• Tram, Wikipedia
• Frank J. Sprague, Wikipedia
• National Road, Wikipedia
• Ford Model T, Wikipedia
• Paving The Way, Route 66
• Weingroff, Richard F. Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, FHA
• Bus, Wikipedia
• Fordson tractor, Wikipedia
• Great Depression, WIkipedia
• New Deal, Wikipedia
• Works Progress Administration, Wikipedia
• Robert Moses, Wikipedia
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA), US Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Redlining, Think Glink
• G.I. Bill of Rights, WIkipedia
• Levittown, New York, Wikipedia
• Weingroff, Richard F. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, FHA
• Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, Wikipedia

07 The Evil Empire

• Morris, Stephen A. Zoning and Historic Preservation, Cultural Resource Partnership Notes, Heritage Preservation Services, National Center for Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, National Park Service, 10 pp., June 1998. [Download PDF file at Partnership Notes. Print pp. 1-10.]
• Types of Zoning and Formats — Discussion Paper, Prepared by the City of Palo Alto, Department of Planning and Community Environment, City of Palo Alto,California. July, 2001 Peruse
• Gerckens, Laurence C. , AICP. American Zoning & the Physical Isolation of Uses. Planners Web
• New York City Zoning, New York City Department of Planning
  • Zoning (home)
  • Zoning History
• National Main Street Center, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Four-Point Approach™
  • Eight Guiding Principles
  • Successful Organizational Models
  • Success of the Main Street Approach
  • 2007 Economic Statistics
  • Is the Main Street Approach right for your community? 
  • Coordinating Programs
• Leinberger, Christopher B. Turning Around Downtown: Twelve Steps to Revitalization [Download PDF file.] The Brookings Institution, March 2005.
• Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)

08 How to Mess up a Town

• Katz, Bruce. Reviving Cities: Think Metropolitan, Policy Brief #33, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
• First Principles, Raise the Hammer (Hamilton, Ontario)
• Rebecca R. Sohmer and Robert E. Lang. Downtown Rebound. Fannie Mae Foundation and Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Census Note, May 2001 [Download PDF file.]
• National League of Cities
  • Forms of municipal government
  • The four historic forms of city government
  • City Knowledge Network: Examples of Programs for Cities (searchable database)
  • Advisory Council Trends and Changes Topics
  • Major Factors Affecting America's Cities [Download as PDF file.]
  • The State of America's Cities 2005: The Annual Opinion Survey of Municipal Elected Officials [Download as PDF file.]
  • Local Budget and Tax Policy in the U.S.: Perceptions of City Officials [Download as PDF file.]
  • Toward a System of Public Finance for the 21st Century [Download as PDF file.]
• Cyburbia
• The Garreau Group ("Edge City" issues)
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• National League of Cities
• Planinetizen
• Project for Public Spaces
• The Urban Institute
• Urban Land Instute

09 A Place Called Home

To be added.

10 The Loss of Community

To be added.