Sentences with phrase «build walkable»

The purpose of doing so was to guarantee connectivity in order to ensure the ability to help build a walkable neighborhood, as Vegas has generally been a car - driving town.

Perhaps I am naive, but I keep thinking that if we built walkable and cyclable cities out of radically efficient buildings, we wouldn't be having these problems.

Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious.

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Both Myers and the Atlantic's Joe Pinsker speculate that one major source of competition for aging millennials could be what Nielsen has called «urban burbs» — suburban developments built to be walkable, and include a mix of living and retail space, while still offering cheaper, larger houses.

Along with others in the community, we have developed a plan to buy and tear down the building and replace it with a small walkable «neighborhood town center.»

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

A new church building required to seat more than about 700 people will almost inevitably be situated in a parking lot rather then amid a walkable neighborhood — and that's a problem for urbanism.

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

Venice itself is very walkable, but because we wanted to enjoy the city with the waters surrounding the buildings, we took the boat a lot.

Both tram and bus stops very close to the building, many areas are walkable in about 15 minutes or less.

The Majestic is located in a fascinating — and reasonably easily walkable — neighbourhood, packed with a wonderful mish - mash of colonial - era buildings plus pretty parks and gardens.

Housed in the historic buildings that make up Victoria's walkable downtown core are celebrated restaurants, stylish boutiques and cozy pubs.

Located in the heart of the bustling downtown River Market District close to the Capitol building and walkable to all the dining / entertainment options, the hotel is a short 7 miles by expressway (12 minutes), from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport

The new - build Hotel Indigo Los Angeles Downtown hotel is part of the downtown area construction boom that's transforming the popular Los Angeles city centre into a walkable destination.

Location!Boutique style building nestled into the isles on Las Olas walkable to shopping, dining and beach.

Havana boasts a walkable Old Town center and buildings with beautiful, antiquated charm.

Along with superb performance venues such as the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and three world - class museums (the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Crow Collection of Asian Art) the easily walkable Arts District houses one of the world's largest collections of Pritzker Prize - winning buildings in one contiguous location.

Hank Dittmar, the American - born chief executive of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, has an op - ed in today's Guardian on a scheme to accommodate England's 3 million planned housing units in walkable, mixed - use, low - carbon neighborhoods where residents benefit from connectedness to city and community life.

While we write about a world after cars, where people live in walkable cities, Francesco Gatti is building a drive - thru museum in Nanjing, China.

We know that we're capable of building really dense new neighborhoods and even of using good design, infill development and infrastructure investments to transform existing medium - low density neighborhoods into walkable compact communities.

We Americans could use a lot less energy with better housing and with denser cities (walkable, electrified public transit), though of course building new buildings takes energy of its own.

As futurist Alex Steffen has persuasively argued, building denser, more walkable cities is one of the premier ways we can cut back our carbon footprint.

But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high - speed rail networks.

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The small space looks out over the roof at the rest of the building which has been turned into a walkable garden space with a number of green roofing systems that make it an extraordinary space in the middle of the downtown.

Also, do you think people are waking up to the fact that the built environment is the primary cause of the growing obesity epidemic and are therefore now demanding more walkable communities?

And in such communities where gas prices are the determinant, it is no surprise that new development is built at a walkable, cycleable density.

The district's use of local materials, its walkable neighbourhoods, and mix of employment and housing add up to «an underlying intuitive grammar of design that is totally absent from the faceless slab blocks that are still being built around the world to «warehouse» the poor.»

But it is no substitute for good urban design that gets us out of our cars, denser housing types that can support walkable communities, and better buildings that use less energy in the first place.

Any move to ban ICE powered cars and replace them with electric cars should be done together with other actions that reduce the need for cars, including changing planning rules to promote walkable cities, changing building codes to dramatically reduce demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing transportation priorities to encourage cycling and walking, and do a massive rollout of new sources of renewable energy.

Every city I visit anywhere appears to be building downtown lofts and nice, walkable neighborhoods.

Green Buildings Don't an Eco-Town Make As for the challenges that building new walkable and bikeable places that are the antithesis of sprawling, low - density housing, Stutz says,

In this particular case, not only does putting a single building on a 29 - acre site waste land and guarantee that nothing is or ever will be within walking distance beyond the HSBC campus (as it turns out, there's no walkable infrastructure or logical walking destinations nearby anyway).

P.H.: A primary goal of Drawdown is to help people who feel overwhelmed by gloom - and - doom messages see that reversing global warming is bursting with possibility: walkable cities, afforestation, bamboo, high - rises built of wood, marine permaculture, multistrata agroforestry, clean cookstoves, plant - rich diet, assisting women smallholders, regenerative agriculture, supporting girls» ongoing education, smart glass, in - stream hydro, on and on.

Starwood expects to build new hotels for most of planned properties, targeting «walkable» locations with nearby dining, retail and entertainment areas in major cities or central locations in smaller markets with strong job and population growth.

«As more formerly urban renters move to the suburbs in coming years, we'll likely start seeing more apartment buildings and walkable amenities popping up in those communities.»

We built Walk Score to help people find walkable neighborhoods, and having a Walk Score lets people easily compare the walkability of different properties,» said Lerner, who served as lead program manager for Windows Vista during a six - year stint at Microsoft.

Office buildings and malls / shopping centers only get premium pricing if they are in highly walkable locations.

The New Town project team studied St. Charles and other communities in the region with vibrant urban fabrics, cataloging street widths, setback distances, building facades and other urban characteristics — the DNA of compact, walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods — at a block by block level.

The supply of walkable, transit - friendly neighborhoods in the U.S. is limited, and it's really hard for political reasons to add density to them or build more of them.

Are there downsides to the New Urbanism concept where communities are more walkable and have been built almost instantly?

Because they are built in walkable neighborhoods with proximity to transportation options and commercial amenities, Missing Middle housing types should not provide more than one parking space per unit.

In addition, the scale of these housing types makes them more attractive to many buyers who want to live in a walkable neighborhood, but may not want to live in a large condominium or apartment building.

«Well - designed «Missing Middle» buildings unify the walkable streetscape as they greatly diversify the choices available for households of different age, size, and income.

Consumer preferences for walkable communities and energy - efficient homes are on the rise, according to NAR research, along with a considerable and growing market for green building.