Prevention Magazine's list of the best walking cities

(DC is # 5)

Click here.

More and more, in the work that I do, tI find that the principles of urban design, the experience on the street, are so important, but is pretty much neglected in the context of zoning, which focuses on individual buildings, not the overall quality of the experience of place.

And people don't really understand it much.

I need to crack open Cy Paumier's Creating a Vibrant City Center... and Jan Gehl's Close Encounters with Buildings.