A Complete Community Is All Mixed Up
A complete community includes an optimal mix of people, activities, and transport modes in each neighborhood. Like a chef, planners need the right ingredients. Here is the recipe.
Todd Litman | March 15, 2021, 9am PDT Share
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A city is a place where many people and activities occur close together, which facilitates the exchange of goods and ideas. The secret to success is to mix things together to create complete communities.
Urban planning often focuses on density, the number of people or activities in a given area, but equally important is land use mix, the diversity of people and activities in an area. To use a sports metaphor, density provides strength and power, a necessary foundation, while mix is akin to skill and finesse, which is what makes a community interesting and successful.
Rethinking Streets During the Pandemic
A new book from the Rethinking Streets series identifies 25 quick redesigns cities can use to reconfigure streets for the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. February 18, 2021, 10am PST | Todd Litman Share
The introduction to the new book
Rethinking Streets During COVID-19 authored by Marc Schlossberg, Rebecca Lewis, Aliza Whalen, Clare Haley, Danielle Lewis, Natalie Kataoaka, and John Larson-Friend reads as follows:
During COVID-19 Re-allocating space on streets to accommodate new uses particularly for walking, biking, and being is not new. COVID-era needs have accelerated the process that many communities use to make such street transitions, however. Many communities quickly understood that the street is actually a public place and a public good that serves broader public needs more urgent than the free flow or the storage of private vehicles. This book captures some of these quick changes to city streets in response to societ