Bratislava Pushes Child-Friendly Design to Tame Sprawl, Boost ...
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According to Adam Baacke, Lowell’s assistant city manager for planning and development, achieving this transformation was essentially a three-step process that could perhaps be best described as politics, permitting, and pathfinding. Politics refers to changing attitudes (and people) on the city council, where most members shunned downtown housing
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‘streets constitute the vast majority of public space in a city’. Visit some parts of the world, and you’ll routinely see streets as places for play, conversation, chess, dominoes, singing and dancing, sleeping. Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá, believes that children playing in the street are actually an ‘indicator species’ for the well-
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Kids are sidelined by policy makers, and that creates unnecessary burdens for parents. Most urban planners, Lange said, “don’t make streets safe for kids to cross on their own. They expect you, as a parent, to set aside time to walk your kids to school every day.”
The Atlantic • Cities Aren’t Built for Kids
New Haven’s efforts to replace old neighborhoods with brutally modern architecture received national attention, and won many design awards, but by the late 1960s they had largely failed because they concentrated poverty, isolated residents
Jonathan F. P. Rose • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
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What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
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