Human-Scale Shopping Still Elusive In The Suburbs
3 August 2002 - 9:00am
Shopping centers are being abandoned so quickly by retailers that residents of nearby neighborhoods are growing alarmed.
Meanwhile, a favorite new urbanist vision of shopping -- the idea of tucking commercial areas into the centers of walkable new suburban developments -- is proving difficult to carry out.Consequently, CNU X in Miami Beach brought an explosion of ideas about how to organize roads and shopping into a form that's both humanly appealing and economically realistic. Regional thinker Peter Calthorpe and Urban Land Institute retail expert Michael Beyard approached the problem of roads and retailing from differing perspectives.
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Human-Scale Shopping Still Elusive in the Suburbs; Calthorpe and Beyard Propose Solutions
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Urban Land Institute, August 2, 2002
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