"Community Motive"→ Regional/Greater Communities: "Think local planet, act regionally."

 Greetings All –In 2020, Sustainability: Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 – “Think local planet, act regionally,”  was published as Chapter 25 of The Elgar Companion to...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2022/12/looking-ahead-to-2023-bringing-together.html

Greetings All – Thought has continued to evolve and it is time to begin reporting about the Built Environment/Technosphere and Cold War Nuclear Geography, topics I’ve posted to Twitter, Faceb...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2020/02/decadal-report-mapping-trajectory-of.html

“Community Motive” Driven “Cooperation Industry Earth 2300” – The Evolution of Thought Continues – Annual Report 2016 Regional Community News began as an online newsletter November 11...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2016/12/community-motive-driven-cooperation.html

Greetings All -  Here's the latest evolution of my thinking. Your thoughts welcome. In the future the blog will be updated to reflect them. Bests.  Tom Cooperation Industry - News &...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2015/09/cooperation-industry-news-thought.html

The U.S. is about to hit the debt limit ceiling again; another budget crisis. "How did this happen?" many wonder. In 1986, I wrote the following article for the World Future Society. If you ...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2015/03/regional-councils-todays-governmental_14.html

"Regional/Greater Community Development News & Thought"    can be found daily at these locations: Twitter Feed Google+ Cooperation Industry      Regional Community Ne...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2014/11/regionalgreater-community-development.html

Diverse Regions: Building Resilient Communities & Territories Regional Studies Association European Conference Monday 16th-Wednesday 18th June 2014 Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Business...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2014/04/diverse-regions-building-resilient.html

REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2014 Tweeting about this event #RSABrazil2014 From Vulnerable Places to Resilient Territories: The Path to Sustainable Dev...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-path-to-sustainable.html

The Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI) cordially invites you to the presentation of “The Art of Shaping the Metropolis” A book by Pedro B. Ortiz, Senior Urban Consultant at the...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-art-of-shaping-metropolis.html

Dear Readers – Today is the ten year anniversary of the newsletter part of the Regions Work Initiative. It is, among other things, an effort to make the notion of "regional community” a viabl...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/11/dear-readers-today-is-ten-year.html

The prior three posts which demonstrate the levels of the global geocode will raise the question, "Why focus on COGs/Regional Councils in the U.S.? The following excerpt from the paper: "Prototyp...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-focus-on-cogsregional-councils-in.html

The Global Geocodes were designed to support analysis of sub-national political geographies. In the case of the United States, there are sub-state regions – counties or thei...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/10/global-geocode-library-organizes-us-sub.html

The Global Geocodes are designed to work at subnational levels. Here, for the United States, the nation code 5140 has added to it a two digit decimal number. Like the global codes, codes are assi...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/10/global-geocode-library-use-organizes-us.html

Here is a use of the Global Geocodes that I've worked on since 2001 in Library mode to organize Wikipedia pages geographically. Some information is in the "Geocode Introduction" sidebar. If you a...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/10/global-geocode-library-use-organizes.html

Many in regional development ask local officials to: "put on the regional hat." This 18 minute video/PowerPoint presentation considers the basis for various scales of political organization and t...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/09/considering-regional-hat-short-video.html

            Conference Page    Plenary Speakers                   Conference Chairman: Professo...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/08/global-urbanization-conference-plenary.html

July 30, 2013 Dear Reader:  Based on my experience as a regional planner and agency director, 1973 -2008, and in recognition of emerging "regional communities," I developed three thoughts ab...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/07/these-three-thoughts-theses-if-you-will.html

Mobilising regions: territorial strategies for growth Regional Studies Association Winter Conference Friday 22nd   November 2013, London, UK CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract submission ...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/05/call-for-papers-mobilising-regions.html

      At the Southern Regional Science Association meeting in Arlington, Virginia, we have just received a presentation from Kathy Jacobs, U.S. Whitehouse Assistant Director f...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/04/draft-climate-assessment-report-public.html

OPEN DAYS 2013 University Sessions and Master Class: RSA is the exclusive partner. Please see the our  website   The Regional Studies Association has been selected as the exclusive...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/02/regional-studies-association-and-open.html

With the new focus on the notion of "community motive" in November, 2012 the blog here is shifting, as the title says to:  "Greater/Regional Community Motivation - News and Thought" The find...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2013/02/greaterregional-community-motivation.html

November 22, 2012 Dear Reader – Promoting regional planning and cooperation among the 20 local governments of Virginia’s Northern Shenandoah Valley was my work from 1973-2008. Many people chu...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2012/11/given-many-problems-we-face-only.html

    Multi-jurisdictional intentional regional communities are, in all cases, “Greater Communities” where “community motive” is at work at a more than a local scale. This ne...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2012/11/regionalgreater-community-development.html

    Multi-jurisdictional intentional regional communities are, in all cases, “Greater Communities” where “community motive” is at work at a more than a local scale. This ne...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2012/10/regionalgreater-community-development_30.html

    Multi-jurisdictional intentional regional communities are, in all cases, “Greater Communities” where “community motive” is at work at a more than a local scale. This ne...

http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/2012/10/regionalgreater-community-development_23.html