Sentences with phrase «of walkable neighborhoods»

They include redesigning a suburban hospital campus to become a mixed - use town center; transforming the area around a mall into an urbane downtown; re-imagining a typical commercial highway corridor as a string of walkable neighborhoods connected by streetcar; and, finally, a plan to remake a large, sprawling city into one of the most walkable, age - friendly cities in the country.

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.

Among the nine criteria used to evaluate projects are the location of the development in relation to the municipality's master plan, efforts to advance the creation of walkable neighborhoods, a «significant unmet need» in the community for senior housing, and whether the project will be at least 50 % occupied by seniors with an income at or below 60 % of the median income in Erie County.

The average resident of a walkable neighborhood weighs 6 — 10 pounds less than someone who lives in a sprawling neighborhood, according to Walk Score — an app that measures walkability.

Not exact matches

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.

In the case of a city made of neighborhoods, this means that a neighborhood contains within walkable proximity to one another places to live, work, play, learn and worship.

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.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

If you enjoy on - foot travel more, our Downtown, the heart of our community, is very walkable and enjoyable, and the same is true of our many neighborhoods.

«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.

Walk Score, a company that promotes and rates «walkable» neighborhoods, ranks the accessibility of a city's entertainment venues, restaurants, and, yes, bars by foot.

The study found that «in 13 of those markets, the walkable neighborhoods had higher home values than further - out neighborhoods with similar homes.»

Walk Score, a company that promotes and rates «walkable» neighborhoods, ranks the accessibility of an area's businesses and restaurants, and yes, bars, by foot.

While your neighborhood may be walkable, Indiana is not on the cutting edge of public transportation.

Back in Santa Barbara, a once - industrial area called the «Funk Zone» has transformed into a walkable neighborhood full of art galleries and nearly 20 boutique wine tasting rooms.

Walkable neighborhoods are one of the simplest and best solutions for the environment, our health, and our economy.

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.

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.

Another example: designing a neighborhood to be walkable will reduce the number of cars on the road, but it will also increase the health of residents and help those who can't afford a car.

Urban living requires efficient use of space, but it can be a very environmentally - friendly lifestyle: city residents generally live in small homes with access to walkable neighborhoods and public transportation.

Portland aims to bring complete neighborhoods — which are walkable, energy - efficient, and have a sustainable modal split — to 80 % of the city's population by 2035.

Somehow we reach the conclusions that dense, walkable, neighborhoods with shared resources are better than sprawling suburbs; that mobility and accessibility for everyone is better than a private car - oriented system that serves only the healthy and wealthy; and that the reduction of carbon footprints is essential to protect the planet's ecosystems.

This is all a great shame because it distracts readers from the real value of the book, in which Zehner asks the question: «Why do the options of wind, solar, and biofuels flow from our minds so freely as solutions to our various energy dilemmas, while conservation and walkable neighborhoods do not?

Walk Appeal is the strongest indicator of the likelihood of success of neighborhood businesses in walkable places.

What would be really neat, of course, is if these «sexy» upgrades were combined with commitments to other elements of sustainable design: decent bike storage, walkable neighborhoods, electric vehicle chargers as standard etc..

So, there you go: one very helpful tool to guard against cognitive decline is to live in a highly walkable neighborhood with a bit of complexity to it.

Some of the conclusions are unsurprising, such as Older, mixed - use neighborhoods are more walkable.

For instance, moving to nicer digs may not necessarily save you money, but perhaps living in a more vibrant, walkable neighborhood will improve your quality of living.

Infill developments are usually walkable and near other businesses that appeal to tenants, both free luxuries that are often more alluring than landscaping or other costly amenities: «Urban civilization — for people to live in real neighborhoods — is something that defies the laws of supply and demand.

But many of the most affluent consumers are now clustered in walkable neighborhoods, letting them skip the mall in favor of neighborhood hardware stores, bookshops and grocers.

«Besides, a lot of people from millennials to boomers want to live in or near revitalized downtowns in walkable, bikable neighborhoods.

Some retirement analysts have identified a trend of suburban retirees moving out of their big empty nests into condos and apartments in the central city or suburban town centers offering them an array of services in compact, walkable neighborhoods.

«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.

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.

According to an NAR survey, 55 percent of Americans prefer mixed - use, walkable neighborhoods.

From celebrating the uniqueness of a place to bringing amenities such as food markets to make more complete walkable neighborhoods, placemaking is becoming a leading economic development strategy.

The majority of millennials» housing preferences may not be as different from previous generations as once believed, according to a new report released this week from The Demand Institute, Millennials and Their Homes: Still Seeking the American Dream.The report finds that the majority of millennials want to own a house in the suburbs as they look to raise families and they want more space, a veer from other studies that have shown twentysomethings will likely choose walkable urban neighborhoods when it comes time to buy.

Research by the National Association of Realtors ® has consistently revealed that Americans prefer walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods and shorter commutes.

Americans favor walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods, with 56 percent of respondents preferring smart growth neighborhoods over neighborhoods that require more driving between home, work and recreation.

With sprawl, congestion and other ills making the typical suburban model less and less sustainable, more and more places are using form - based codes to recreate the compact, walkable, mixed - use neighborhoods of the past — a style that's often referred to as new urbanism and which fits hand - in - glove with smart growth.

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.

A 2007 smart - growth study in Atlanta found that 37 percent of residents in highly walkable neighborhoods met the U.S. Surgeon General's recommendations of 30 minutes of daily moderate physical activity, compared with just 18 percent in the least walkable neighborhoods.

And the supply of walkable, transit - friendly neighborhoods in U.S. cities is limited.

From walkable neighborhoods to on - site fitness classes, package pick - up solutions to online rent payments and more, new data from the largest - ever survey of apartment residents gives a detailed picture of what apartment residents want — and even what they'd expect to pay for it.

Homes located in more walkable neighborhoods — those with a mix of common daily shopping and social destinations within a short distance — command a price premium over otherwise similar homes in less walkable areas.

South Ironbound is a fairly walkable neighborhood in Newark with a Walk Score of 88.

Many Americans see the benefits of both a single - family detached house as well as a walkable neighborhood.

Rego Park is a supremely walkable neighborhood in New York with a Walk Score of 92.

Hercules by the Bay is a minimally walkable neighborhood in Hercules with a Walk Score of 32.