Edward Erfurt wrote:
The most successful and resilient development patterns include a mix of land “uses”—in other words, it allows residential units, offices, retail, restaurants, and the like to exist in close proximity to each other. A variety of uses, regardless of what form they take, creates a natural diversity within a community or neighborhoo...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
“In July 2020, three-quarters of Americans told pollsters that being within walking distance of destinations like shops and parks were important to them, yet too many new developments still assume a car-dependent lifestyle.” Consequently, developers are starting to build denser, mixed-use suburbs in an effort to provide both more spacious living quarter...
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Jay Stange wrote:
The Twin Cities are plenty big enough to support healthy transit ridership, but as it turns out, size doesn’t matter in transit. On last week’s Strong Towns Podcast, Jason Slaughter from Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns’ Chuck Marohn sat down to talk about what America keeps getting wrong about public transit...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
When asked about his decision to move from Atlanta to Boise, Keane tells Prentice, “If you look at American cities in the way they've grown over the past 50 or 60 years, the pattern is very similar. The scale is different. But in Boise, the question that intrigues me is, ‘Can w...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
“Urban designer Peter Calthorpe has a plan for the shuttered and financially troubled strip malls that dot the suburban landscape: Convert the malls into housing that would be part of green communities where people could be closer to their jobs and get out of their cars.” As Jacques Leslie writes for Yal...
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Todd Litman wrote:
Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done
Billie Giles-Corti, Anne Vernez Moudon, Melanie Lowe, Deepti Adlakha, Ester Cerin, Geoff Boeing, and others
Urban design is key to healthy environments for all
Thiago Herick de Sa, Abraham Mwaura, Cristina Vert, Pierpaolo Mudu, Nathalie Roebbel, Nhan Tran, and others
Mea...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
According to an article by Kaley Overstreet in Arch Daily, “mixed-use spaces do more than just create a diverse array of experiences in cities- they might also help contribute to lower crime rates.” Mixed-Use neighborhoods, writes Overstreet, “enhance social connections and promote public transportation, while also encouraging the themes of ‘live, work...
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Todd Litman wrote:
I like the term, urban village, or just village because they describe compact, mixed, walkable neighborhoods where it is easy to get around without driving. These can also be called transit-oriented development, new urbanism, location-efficient development, and recently 15-minute neighborhoods. Regardless of the name, they help residents become healthy, wealthy, and happy.
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
As reported in an article by Sara Shookman, “Mayor Justin Bibb says Cleveland wants to be the first 15-minute city in North America, introducing the concept during his State of the City speech Wednesday.”
Matt Moss, a planner with Cleveland City Planning Commission, said “It's starting out with the city we hav...
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Catie Gould wrote:
What can you do with half-empty parking lots at struggling strip malls and shopping centers?
A lot, according to a report released last month by Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council. MAPC’s analysis of the region’s 3,024 strip malls found that redeveloping just the best-suited 10 percent of them per town into mixed-use housing an...
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