Sentences with phrase «creating walkable»

Creating walkable and bikable cities and having incentives for public transportation (such as congestion charges in city centers, etc) is a separate task that must be undertaken regardless of whether cars have autopilots or not...

Creating walkable communities is a key goal of urban planners today who want to get more cars and buses off the road and bring people closer to nature.

«I'd love to see a development that would create a walkable environment, based on the fact that this is a city of neighborhoods,» she said.

Below the surface of the lake, the unique and vibrantly - colored pebbles create a walkable mosaic.

«So we created this walkable community event as a way to support the businesses and strengthen the feel of Abbot Kinney.»

She also cosponsored a bill to expand and encourage the use of public transportation and help local governments create walkable and bike - able communities.

«I recently met with the person who is responsible for monitoring air quality in our county (Mecklenburg County, home of Charlotte), and she said the best thing communities can do to improve air quality is to create walkable communities,» said Graham.

«REALTORS ® aid in improving and revitalizing neighborhoods with smart growth initiatives, helping create walkable, urban centers, which is what more Americans want in their neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

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.

Transportation is on the cusp of a major transition, with more efficient cars and trucks, new technologies such as electric vehicles and zero - emission buses, services such as ride sharing, and a renewed emphasis from planners on creating accessible, livable, walkable, and bikeable communities.

It also delivers other environmental benefits such as creating a greener and more walkable city.

Independence: Besides creating cities that are walkable and bikeable, technology that goes into efficient and intelligent public transportation is key.

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«As NACTO's research suggests, creating a dense network of stations — always separated by walkable distances — has been key to Citi Bike's popularity.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a growing number of aging and obsolete shopping malls are being transformed into vibrant, walkable mixed - use communities, creating more - profitable retailers and developers, property - tax - flush governments, and more content and less harried residents and workers.

Over the last several years, the D.C. suburb has sought to replicate along the Pike the success it had in creating a string of walkable neighborhoods around Metro Rail stations in the Rosslyn - Ballston corridor.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a growing number of aging and obsolete shopping malls are being transformed into vibrant, walkable mixed - use communities, creating more - profitable retailers and developers, property - tax - flush governments, and more...

«Better Block is a demonstration tool that rebuilds and revitalizes an area using grassroots efforts to show the potential to create a great walkable, vibrant neighborhood — and even a destination... It's a way to give residents a taste of what's possible,» Moskerintz writes on NAR's Spaces to Places blog.

He says that changing demographics — from aging baby boomers desirous of being close to entertainment and healthcare to young people without children — are creating a desire for places to live that are walkable and have amenities nearby.

With seven different landowners owning pieces of the site, it would have been difficult for the city to achieve a unified vision for the property using a conventional code because it wouldn't have spelled out the details needed to create a compact, walkable, mixed - use development.

The goal is to create a sustainable transit system that will increase land values, connect thriving economic hubs and encourage transit - oriented development that creates compact, walkable communities.

The new term, discussed by a panel of experts at the recent Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting in Chicago, refers to a cohesive design used to create more urban, «walkable» communities with gathering places for socialization and connectivity.