To the east, the new and up-and-coming neighbourhoods of Mission Bay and South Beach are vibrant and walkable.
The businesses are all walkable, and there are miles and miles of hiking trails.
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Would you trade your suburban home for a place in a more walkable community?
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And though Hudson is incredibly walkable, a car will add to your options of places to stay.
An experimental traffic management scheme, which aims to help make Bath a "walkable city", has been announced.
And the alternative often is a traffic-slowed bus, or a crowded underground train traversing a highly walkable distance.
The walkable area is perfect for popping in and out of coffee shops, bookstores and antiques havens.
As more people opt for a denser more walkable urban experience, these will become relics of a different economy.
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The couple both said they love Minneapolis and how walkable their neighborhood is, but they're still adjusting to the winters.
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People like me who would like there to be more dense, walkable neighborhoods in America face a kind of chicken-and-egg problem.
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Recent market research indicates that up to 40 percent of households surveyed in selected metropolitan areas want to live in walkable urban areas, said Leinberger.
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By concentrating commercial and residential uses in one walkable community, MGM is translating for the Vegas crowd the ideas from the New Urbanist movement of the 1980s.
They support adding parks and more green space, public transit, improved public access to beaches and waterfronts and creating more walkable communities that mix residential and retail uses.
The result is an oversupply of depreciating suburban housing and a pent-up demand for walkable urban space, which is unlikely to be met for a number of years.
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Neighborhoods are within walkable distance of shops, restaurants and parks.
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Much like the High Line, plans to clean up the desolate areas around the walkable bridge will make it ideal for leisurely walks and for discovering less trodden parts of Rotterdam.
Start near City Hall in Myeongdong , a downtown area close to some of the city's best sites and shopping (located on and around Myeong-donggil) and all within a walkable distance.
This is not to say that downtown LA has all of a sudden become as attractive and walkable a downtown as the likes of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, or Boston.
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Zappos (now a subsidiary of Amazon) has historically been based in Henderson, but Hsieh is moving the campus to downtown Las Vegas as a centerpiece of his efforts to create a dense, walkable downtown.
But now, Leinberger told CNN, it appears the pendulum is beginning to swing back in favor of the type of walkable community that existed long before the advent of the once fashionable suburbs in the 1940s.
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Its dazzling white marble roof is a walkable, tilted plane that slips into the Oslo fjord at the building's lowest point, rising from the harbor's edge as a series of angled, switchback surfaces to the structure's top.
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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!
Philly is also a walkable city.
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Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.
By concentrating commercial and residential uses in one walkable community, MGM is translating for the Vegas crowd the ideas from the New Urbanist movement of the 1980s, which spawned warm-and-fuzzy insta-communities such as the 352-acre town of Kentlands in Maryland and Walt Disney Co.
The desire is also substantiated by real estate prices for urban residential space, which are 40 to 200 percent higher than in traditional suburban neighborhoods -- this price variation can be found both in cities and small communities equipped with walkable infrastructure, he said.
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Instead, they are looking for what Leinberger calls "walkable urbanism" -- both small communities and big cities characterized by efficient mass transit systems and high density developments enabling residents to walk virtually everywhere for everything -- from home to work to restaurants to movie theaters.
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But what it gave us, with its short, 200-foot block lengths and small, 20- to 25-foot lot sizes, its direct and easy navigability, is a walkable, personal city at human scale, where every street is an endlessly varied and inviting series of visual experiences, of constantly changing shopfronts, restaurants and buildings of infinite styles and uses.
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