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Connecting Places, Connecting People - A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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Connecting Places, Connecting People - A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and
transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically
sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the
challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising
gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased
prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of
car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place
in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing
countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in
technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future
living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of
face-to-face connections. What will be the 'glue' that holds
communities together in the future? To build better communities and
to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places.
Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for
place making by reordering urban planning principles from
prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the
people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from
developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can
be realized or fallen short of in practical terms. Importantly,
citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with
each other and with government agencies. To measure the
connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to
meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual
quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
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