Screen LibraryWithin walking distance : creating livable communities for all /
"In Within Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Sta...
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Island Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, DC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"In Within Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Starting conditions differ radically, as do the attitudes and interests of residents. To draw the most important lessons, Langdon spent time in six communities that differ in size, history, wealth, diversity, and education, yet share crucial traits: compactness, a mix of uses and activities, and human scale. ... In these communities, Langdon examines safe, comfortable streets; sociable sidewalks; how buildings connect to the public realm; bicycling; public transportation; and incorporation of nature and parks into city or town life. In all these varied settings, he pays special attention to a vital ingredient: local commitment."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781610917711 (paperback) : 1610917715 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | HT167 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Call Number: | TU984.712/L273 |
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Big city, intimate settings: Center City Philadelphia -- Creating gathering places: the East Rock neighborhood, New Haven, Connecticut -- Keeping the town center vital: Brattleboro, Vermont -- The walkable immigrant neighborhood: Chicago's "Little Village" -- Redeveloping with pedestrians in mind: the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon -- Patient placemaking: the Cotton District, Starkville, Mississippi -- Toward human-scale communities -- |