Sentences with phrase «walkable urbanism»

The walkable urbanism movement is driving development in many parts of the country.

When I first saw Steve's checklist of walkable urbanism, I thought it was flawed because different people will walk different distances; my accountant is two miles away but I often walk it.

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the redevelopment agency focused on attracting more residential development, and promoted new urbanism principles such as walkable, tree - lined streets.

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.

The Cotton District in Starkville was recorded as the first development modeled after the new urbanism style, meaning that it is a walkable and mixed - use neighborhood.

UrbDeZine is for If you like architecture, urban planning, walkable neighborhoods, complete streets, public transit, bicycles and other active transit, historic preservation, halting or reversing climate change, tactical urbanism and much more.

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.