Sentences with phrase «walkable city center»

While that plan never quite worked out, it left a compact and very walkable city center with a nice pedestrian mall and well - kept parks nearby.

My favorite day trips are to Córdoba, which can be reach by high - speed train in under an hour and boasts a mosque and gorgeous, walkable city center and Ronda, one of the famous white villages.

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The city offers organized activities like hikes and a farmers» market, and it's in the process of improving its city center to make it a walkable, bikeable draw for local residents.

We typically stay as close to the city center as possible and most definitely in a walkable area.

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...

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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.

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.

«Because walkable urban centers close to amenities are typically a big draw for renters, you'd expect rents to rise faster in the city than in the suburbs — which is exactly what we've been seeing until very recently,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, «but a handful of factors are helping turn the tables and beginning to push suburban rents up at a higher clip.

«They seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.

Pat Kaplan: With Portland's urban growth boundary, we have always driven people to the center of the city, but it was about four years ago that I saw the properties that were close to public transportation and in walkable communities begin to appreciate much more rapidly than other properties.

«They [millennials] seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.