Within Walking Distance Creating Livable Communities for All 1st Edition Philip Langdon 1610917731 9781610917735

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• ISBN 10: 1610917731
• ISBN 13: 9781610917735
• Author: Philip Langdon

For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance. But then the great project of the twentieth century—sorting people, businesses, and activities into separate zones, scattered across vast metropolises—took hold, exacting its toll on human health, natural resources, and the climate. Living where things were beyond walking distance ultimately became, for many people, a recipe for frustration. As a result, many Americans have begun seeking compact, walkable communities or looking for ways to make their current neighborhood better connected, more self-sufficient, and more pleasurable. 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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Big City, Intimate Settings: Center City Philadelphia

Chapter 2 Creating Gathering Places: The East Rock Neighborhood, New Haven, Connecticut

Chapter 3 Keeping the Town Center Vital: Brattleboro, Vermont

Chapter 4 The Walkable Immigrant Neighborhood: Chicago’s “Little Village”

Chapter 5 Redeveloping with Pedestrians in Mind: The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon

Chapter 6 Patient Placemaking: The Cotton District, Starkville, Mississippi

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