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    Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All
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    Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All

    By Philip Langdon

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    InWithin Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. To draw the mimportant lessons, Langdon sptime in six communities that differ in size, history, wealth, diversity, and education, yet share crucial traits: compactness, a mix of uses and activities, and human scale. To improve conditions and opportunities for everyone, Langdon argues thatplaces where the best of life is within walking distanceought to be at the core of our thinking. This book is for anyone who wants to understand what can be done to build, rebuild, or improve a community while retaining the things that make it distinctive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781610917735
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    Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All
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    Philip Langdon

    Philip Langdon has written on houses and design for many national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Landscape Architecture, Home, and Planning. A former senior editor of Progressive Architecture, he is the author of several books, including American Houses and A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. With Steve Thomas, he co-authored This Old House Kitchens and This Old House Bathrooms. Langdon lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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