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	Articles		Magazine Issues
	Smart Growth and Winter City Design		Winter 2005
	History of the SnowCastle 1996-2009.pdf		Winter 2004
	Press Release SnowCastle of Kemi		Summer 2004
	Living in Harmony with Winter		The Michigan Municipal League Magazine  An entire issue devoted to winter cities.
	Influencing Travel Behaviour in a Winter City
	Influence of Climate
	Schoolchildren’s Adaptation To Winter In Cold Climates
	Anchorage, Alaska Exploring Color in an Urban Frontier
	Looking at NUUK – Greenland
	Playgrounds
	Photography		Master Plans / Guidelines
			Marquette master Plan*
			City Of Houghton Walkability / Pedestrian Plan
			Fort St.John Winter Cities guidelines*
			Land Use and Design for Cities in Northern Climates
	Conference Materials
	BEAT Summit – October 2009
	City of Marquette.pdf
	Land Use and Design for Cities in Northern Climates PAS.pdf
	Living in Harmony with Winter.pdf
	Pedestrian Mobility in Winter.pdf
	Winter Culture and Celebration.pdf
	Fort St.John Winter Cities guidelines

Ralph Erskine, Architect, Sweden

Here houses and towns should open up like flowers to the sun of spring and summer, but also, like flowers, turn their backs on the shadows and the cold northern winds, offering sun-warmth and wind protection to their terraces, gardens and streets.  They should be most unlike the arcaded towns and matt-shadowed streets of the south Europeans and Arabs, but most similar in the basic function…helping people to maintain their skin at a comfortable 35 degrees C.

When studying the beautiful towns of the south, whether old or new, it is not the forms themselves which should interest us, but the inventiveness and artistry with which people solved their needs which were peculiar to their situation and time, the comfort and beauty which they created.  Only by such methods can arise a personal and indigenous Alaskan, Canadian, Scandinavian or North Russian tradition.