Human-Scale Shopping Still Elusive In The Suburbs

Shopping centers are being abandoned so quickly by retailers that residents of nearby neighborhoods are growing alarmed.

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August 3, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

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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Friday, August 2, 2002 in Urban Land Institute

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