Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida's prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help.The American Prospect, January 4, 2010

The cure for obsolescence – urban and suburban – is not remodelling of interiors and other makeshift devices. The cure is … An important article from the Harvard Business Review, November-December 1954

Just after First World War, “There is to be a maximum working week of forty-eight hours for the vast majority of working men who dwell in towns. Some will do nothing with it, or worse”. Why not dig an allotment? The Times, August 25, 1919

Quite idyllic description of the booming shopping centers industry at the beginning, in the heydays of the postwar suburban growth era. Time magazine, October 15, 1956

Shaping Future of World’s Greatest Municipal Centre Under Russel Sage Foundation – Transforming of Long New York Into Outlying Round New York. The New York Times, May 21, 1922

A very short anthology of just three articles from The New York Times: purchase, surveying, strategy and first results of a great plan for the grandmother of leafy contemporary suburbs

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