Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Florida cities narrowing highways

Many of the beachfront towns in Florida are narrowing their highways, "road dieting," to enhance the experience of place, rather than focus on traffic, according to "South Florida cities narrow roads to slow down traffic," from the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

While unsuccessfully looking for an image of this, I came across a report by the US Department of Transportation (huh?) entitled Domestic Scan Tour II Report, Integration of Land Use and Transportation Planning: Lessons Learned from the Second Domestic Scan Tour.

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