The first four commercial tenants have been selected for Storrs Center in Connecticut. The biggest surprise, for those watching the project from a distance, is that one of the businesses is an auto repair shop.
Residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and services – a pattern typically found in older, traditional communities – walk nearly three times more often than do residents of whose nearest shops lie along a major arterial road.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41 percent.
A Mercer University initiative, with aid from the Knight Foundation, and a class trip to confer with Richard Florida result in “The Lofts at Mercer Village.”
Development of new malls has almost completely stopped — while owners of enclosed malls are considering dramatic makeovers as town centers, the Post reports.
There hasn’t been a New Urbanist Council gathering for a while. Which is why a lot of pent-up anxiety — and hope — found release in Council sessions in Montgomery, Alabama.
Farmers' markets have recently sprung up so fast across North America that some are not doing well. Vancouver, British Columbia, is trying to avoid their mistakes.
Demographic and market conditions are causing supermarkets in the District of Columbia region and elsewhere to modify their designs and fit walkable neighborhoods.
Residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and services – a pattern typically found in older, traditional communities – walk nearly three times more often than do residents of whose nearest shops lie along a major arterial road.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41 percent.
