Epoch Center

Epoch Center is a think tank and research institute dedicated to a faith-based approach to loving, understanding, and benefiting today's cities.

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“Traveling by bike allows one to penetrate the world of the city: to be in it, with it, of it; it is to know, with each trip, its organization, its disorganization, its history, its future, its holes, its trash, its parks, its walkways, its channels, its people, its lives.”

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Cities shape us and in turn we shape our cities. One of the primary shaping influences of the culture and even economy of a city is its built environment. It influences whether neighborhoods are walkable, accessible or even car-dependent.

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The Urban Cartographer's Toolkit is a book full of tools and a framework to help you begin making sense of the city around you. Designed to be highly practical and interactive, this book will lead you out into your neighborhood to explore.

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“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.”

- John Howard

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“Neither cities nor places in them are unordered, unplanned; the question is only whose order, whose planning, for what purpose?”

~ Peter Marcuse

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