“As America adds another 100 million people to its population over the next 30 years, much of the new growth will be concentrated in walkable urban neighborhoods where a person’s basic needs can be found within 1,500 to 3,000 feet, Leinberger said at the luncheon.
Such neighborhoods include rental, affordable and market-rate housing along with neighborhood services, restaurants, entertainment, cultural attractions and offices.
They can occur in a downtown, adjacent to a downtown, in a suburban town center from the early 20th century, in a redeveloped suburban mall or in a new ‘lifestyle center’ on the suburban fringe. They need to be served by mass transit, and they need to be intentionally designed, encouraged by supportive zoning and aggressively managed once they’re built…” (go to article)
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