The Human Dimension of Mixed-Use Development
By Charles R. Wolfe / On December 8th, 2014
Cross-posted from Charles R. Wolfe’s blog at the Huffington Post with permission. Photo copyright Charles R. Wolfe.
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Reid Ewing on How Better Traffic Models Can Lead to More Mixed-Use Development
By Admin / On June 14th, 2013
Reid Ewing, author of the forthcoming book, Measuring Urban Design, talks to Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog.
Here’s another obscure but significant obstacle to building walkable places in America: the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ shoddy traffic generation models for mixed-use development.
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By [node:field_contributor] / On July 28th, 2008
San Francisco ranks at the top in walkable urbanism on countless surveys. In the Brookings' survey I released in December of 2007 (Footloose and Fancy Free; A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 US Metropolitan Areas, www.brookings.edu/walkableurbanism), it ranked #3. In the recently released version 2.0 of Walk Score (www.walkscore.com), the city of San Francisco (as opposed to the metropolitan area I ranked) ranked #1. Yet take a ride on the CalTrans commuter train from downtown Sa