The document discusses the concept of "Smart Growth" which rejects urban sprawl and car dependency. It promotes compact, walkable and bikeable towns and cities with access to public transit like rail. Smart Growth emphasizes using existing infrastructure, conserving open spaces, and reducing dependence on cars. It encourages community identity and human-scale development over large identical developments. Smart Growth supports mixed land uses, incomes and ages within communities to meet daily needs and support local economies.
The document discusses the concept of "Smart Growth" which rejects urban sprawl and car dependency. It promotes compact, walkable and bikeable towns and cities with access to public transit like rail. Smart Growth emphasizes using existing infrastructure, conserving open spaces, and reducing dependence on cars. It encourages community identity and human-scale development over large identical developments. Smart Growth supports mixed land uses, incomes and ages within communities to meet daily needs and support local economies.
The document discusses the concept of "Smart Growth" which rejects urban sprawl and car dependency. It promotes compact, walkable and bikeable towns and cities with access to public transit like rail. Smart Growth emphasizes using existing infrastructure, conserving open spaces, and reducing dependence on cars. It encourages community identity and human-scale development over large identical developments. Smart Growth supports mixed land uses, incomes and ages within communities to meet daily needs and support local economies.
The document discusses the concept of "Smart Growth" which rejects urban sprawl and car dependency. It promotes compact, walkable and bikeable towns and cities with access to public transit like rail. Smart Growth emphasizes using existing infrastructure, conserving open spaces, and reducing dependence on cars. It encourages community identity and human-scale development over large identical developments. Smart Growth supports mixed land uses, incomes and ages within communities to meet daily needs and support local economies.
1. Smart Growth rejects urban sprawl and car dependency and promotes compact, functional towns and cities, the re-growth of communities and an emphasis on rail-based transit Systems. 2. Smart Growth emphasizes use of communities existing infrastructure and resources and conserves open spaces and urban fringes 3. Smart Growth reduces dependence o road transport and increases opportunities for walking, cycling and public transport. Towns, cities and villages should be pedestrian-friendly and rail-accessible. 4. Smart Growth believes our countryside and open space is a precious environmental, social and economic resource. It should be protected and husbanded if we are to move towards a more sustainable society. 5. Smart Growth encourages communities to develop their own identity and vision, respecting their cultural and architectural heritage. It supports humanscale development and opposes large, monolithic developments, out of town retailing and big box architecture. 6. Smart Growth supports a sensible mix of land uses to suit communities, which meets their daily needs. 7. Smart Growth supports mixed-income, mixed-age, inclusive communities that take responsibility for their own development. Local economies should be developed to make them more self supporting. 8. Smart Growth supports quality living for people of all income groups, ages and needs. We want human-scale development at appropriate densities to support sustainable transportation and local facilities. 9. For communities to successfully implement Smart Growth they must ensure all three sectors of the economy- public, private and community- function successfully and sustainably.
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Sustainability (Vol. 1, p. 539). United Kingdom: Green Books Foxhole, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EB. Community: The Structure of Belonging Author: Peter Block 1. One aspect of fragmentation is the gasps between sectors of our cities and neighborhoods; businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, and government operate mostly in their own worlds.Parallel effort added together does not make a community. 2. It is dividedness that make it so difficult to create a more positive or alternative future- especially in a culture that is more interested in individuality and independence than in interdependence. 3. A communitys well being simply had to do with the quality of the relationships, the cohesion that exists among its citizens.
4. The essential work is to build social fabric, both for its own sake and to enable chosen accountability among citizens.
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1, p. 351). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Makeshift Metropolis Author: Witold Rybczynski 1. We want an exciting big city when we are young. Beginning a career, and looking for a mate; a dispersed small city close to nature when we are raising a family; a culture rich downtown when we are empty nesters; and a walkable small city in a warm climate when we retire. 2. Extremely dense vertical cities conserve more energy and resources, If humans want to significantly reduce their carbon footprints, they will have to consider densification.
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Cities (Vol. 1, p. 298). New York City: A Division of Simon & Schuster. Sprawl: A Compact History Author: Robert Bruegmann 1. Sprawl is a recent and peculiarly American phenomenon caused by specific technological innovations like automobile and by government policies like single use zoning. 2. Sprawl is caused by the segregation by income level, race and ethnicity, segregation of immigrants and poorer residents by skin color, religion. 3. Many individuals have claimed that sprawl is a logical result of capitalism because this kind of economic system induces buyers and sellers to act in ways to further their own good even at the expense of their neighbors or the common good. 4. Government as a cause.
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330). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,, London. Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in your City Author: Brad Feld 1. The government and economic social status problem, Its one of the key challenges of a hierarchical organizational model, one in which the most powerful people are the ones at the top of the hierarchy.
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