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Learning from an Italian resort: CoolTowns have two unlikely sources of inspiration. One is Italy, home of

The Block, the Street and the Building: Today the blog focuses on the last of three key components of

The Charter: The Neighborhood: Today the blog focuses on the second of three key components of

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


