Public Places

Partnership for Public Places www site:

http://www.pps.org/placemaking/articles/placemaking-tools/

on that page several short articles:

what is placemaking

what makes a successful Place

Eleven principles for creating great community places

The Power of Ten

Environmental Justice

Principles of Environmental Justice

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/

Principles of Climate Justice

http://weact.org/Portals/7/EJ%20Leadership%20Forum%20Principles.pdf

Interview with Robert Bullard

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/bullard.html

Nature in the City

ims_mbb2007ecology.pdf Ecological Landscapes: connecting neighborhood to city and city to Region, Mike Houck and Jim Labbe

Fortress America: Separate but not equal, Edward J. Blakely, in the Humane Metropolis, University of Massachusetts.

Urbanism in European Cities, Timothy Beatley in the Humane Metropolis, University of Massachusetts.

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Transportation

History of Bike Movement in Portland

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Social Capital and Civic Engagement

Go to: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/socialcapitalprimer.htm

then follow to this link:

http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1215/Bowling_together.html

and:

http://www.BetterTogether.org/150ways.htm

Third Places:

http://www.pps.org/articles/roldenburg/