Within walking distance : creating livable communities for all / Philip Langdon.
"In this volume, the author 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...
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion: Toward Human-Scale Communities.