Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time | 
pickI've had this one on my shelf for a long time after hearing about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast and finally got to it when it came up as November's #Bookspin. Really interesting discussion of what makes a city livable, healthy, and desirable. @TheAromaofBooks
Me and the handsome husband went out on a book date today and these are the books I got.
November #BookSpinBingo. I‘d like to up my nonfiction this month for #NonFictionNovember. And get to a few of the fiction titles that I repeat every month. (also sorry for spelling Pemberley incorrectly, too hard to fix!)
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Read half this in a day - fascinating so far!
Even in cities with high residential densities and great transportation systems, ample parking encourages driving that would not occur without it... "Off street parking requirements are a fertility drug for cars."
Widening a city‘s streets in the name of safety is like distributing handguns to deter crime.
All the fancy economic development strategies, such as developing a biomedical cluster, an aerospace cluster, or whatever the current economic development ‘flavor of the month‘ might be, do not hold a candle to the power of a great walkable urban place.
Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, sees things in a much simpler light: “God made us walking animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
