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Urban Village Planning for Community Livability - 29 August 2024 Summary

29 Aug 2024

This reduces user expenses, community infrastructure and traffic impact costs, pavement area and environmental harms, and because they walk and bicycle more, residents tend to be healthier and have more positive interactions with their neighbors. [...] yards and it is easy yards and you have to walk to the to drive to the The preference for urban village locations has places you need to places where you increased during the last two decades and is likely go. [...] Urban villages tend to reduce per capita vehicle ownership and use by increasing proximity and non-auto travel options, and by reducing traffic speeds and free parking. [...] As a result, to maximize livability and fairness, urban villages should limit automobile traffic volumes and speeds, including electric cars, and favor resource-efficient modes that require less pavement and impose less risk, noise and air pollution. [...] Figure 29 Self-Reinforcing Cycle for Successful Urban Villages Increased Increased non-auto density and Urban villages require compact mode shares mix and mixed development, reduced automobile ownership and use, less land developed to parking and more to public greenspace, Investments shifted improved walkability and a more Reduced vehicle from auto to non-auto ownership and trips attractive publi.

Authors

Todd Litman

Related Organizations

Dalhousie University
George Washington University
Harvard Business School
Pages
34
Published in
Canada

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