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Walkable City
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time | Jeff Speck
Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design.
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LeslieO
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!!! 2y
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rsteve388
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Me and the handsome husband went out on a book date today and these are the books I got.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That‘s awesome!! 📚💙 3y
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LeslieO
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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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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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captainpunchmerica
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Read half this in a day - fascinating so far!

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GoneFishing

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."

Cinfhen 😂😂😂 7y
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GoneFishing

Widening a city‘s streets in the name of safety is like distributing handguns to deter crime.

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GoneFishing

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.

celtichik Amen. 7y
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GoneFishing

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.

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