Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All (1st ed. 2017)

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Synopsis
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 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. The six are Center City Philadelphia; the East Rock section of New Haven, Connecticut; Brattleboro, Vermont; the Little Village section of Chicago; the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon; and the Cotton District in Starkville, Mississippi. 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.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
280 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781610917735
Publisher:
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC
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Copyrighted By:
Philip Langdon
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Art and Architecture, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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