Within Walking Distance Creating Livable Communities for All /

• Main Author: Langdon, Philip (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environment, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.

For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance. But then the great project of the twentieth century—sorting people, businesses, and activities into separate zones, scattered across vast metropoli...