Walkable community

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

Our neighborhoods, our cities, and our commitment to each other would improve if more of us lived in places where “bumping into someone on the street” doesn’t involve heavy traffic and a fender bender.

Design for Walkability presents successful case studies of new real estate development projects that are dense, walkable and supportive of transit. Produced by SPUR, an urban planning policy group in the San Francisco Bay Area, it is intended as a resource for planners, developers, city officials, advocates and civic leaders who want to effect change in their communities

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Pedestrian friendly street design

If someone asks what a green community, or a healthy one, means to you, what comes to mind? I’m willing to bet that for most people it is the visible and tangible aspects: a lovely city park, perha…

Union Studio; Concord Riverwalk Cottages (New Construction of 13 Net Zero possible homes); Concord, Massachusetts.

Is your community a pleasant place to walk? Join us as we take a look at the three criteria that determine whether a community is truly walkable.

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