Walkable neighborhoods are popular now across market segments, with increasing interest in simple pocket neighborhoods consisting of smaller homes, with an emphasis on people,...

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Walkable neighborhoods are popular now across market segments, with increasing interest in simple pocket neighborhoods consisting of smaller homes, with an emphasis on people, not cars

Midtown 2050 Corp. aims to “maximize midtown’s potential” by connecting its existing corporate and university campuses and neighborhoods, and filling in the blanks between them with new developments built to complement each other and support an urban lifestyle.

Design for walkability is human- and environment-centric with numerous benefits that make it a popular trend in urban planning.

How can Carlos Moreno, with a background in highly specialised modes of state control, be promulgating the virtues of open democracy in his 15-minute city?

Explore key issues and ideas in urban design and planning, including bike infrastructure, Vision Zero, walkability, density, and more.

Week 2: Walkability: Good density and mixed use blocks with retail at the sidewalk and streets designed to accommodate more than just automobiles helps to create a healthy urban environment in which the pedestrian is comfortable. These elements were once common in cities but, like streetcars, have been abandoned in the name of car-centric "progress." It's past time to rethink these errors.

"It's hundreds of acres that now, instead of just connecting an office building to an office building, it's connecting neighborhoods."

MVRDV has broken ground on their Traumhaus Funari project in Mannheim, Germany, transforming a former U.S. military barracks into a suburban residential neighborhood. The design for the new neighborhood is shaped by a series of options and rules, intended to promote diversity in the streetscape by...