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Enlightened Towns Toolkit

Books, Periodicals and Organizations

May/June 1997
By Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader 
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Congress for the New Urbanism:
Traditional urban design as a way to improve communities.
706 Sacramento St., Box 148, San Francisco, CA 94108.
http://www.cnu.org

Ithaca Hours:
An alternative currency promoting economic self-reliance that is in wide use in Ithaca, New York.
Box 6578, Ithaca, NY 14851.

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http://www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/

Self-Help Credit Union:
Provides capital for businesses and housing in low-income communities in Durham, North Carolina.
301 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27701.
http://www.self-help.com

Alliance for Paving Moratorium:
Advocates redirecting tax dollars away from road construction to more important needs.
Box 4347, Arcata, CA 95518.
http://www.tidepool.com/~alliance/

1000 Friends of Oregon:
A citizen group that has been instrumental in holding the line on suburban sprawl in Portland.
534 SW Third Av., Suite 300, Portland, OR 97204.
http://www.friends.org/

BOOKS
Books Home from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday world for the 21st century
by James Howard Kunstler (1996, Simon & Schuster).
An entertainting look at how to put the there-there back in our cities.

City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
by David Sucher (1995, City Comfort Press, http://www.citycomfort.com).
An indispensable guide outlining the numerous small details that add up to a great neighborhood.

The Good City and the Good Life
by Daniel Kemmis (1995, Houghton Mifflin).
The former mayor of Missoula, Montana, an Utne visionary, looks at what makes a good city.

Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability
by Myron Orfield (1997, Brookings Institute Press, Washington D.C.).
Ideas from a visionary Minnesota state legislator on how to revitalize innner cities.

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