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The best thing a town can do is to foster the creation of more small businesses. The benefits are many and intertwining. The first step in doing so is giving people hope. Show them how easy it is to get started in your town.
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Dying sidewalk cafes are the canary in the coal mine for #urbanism. When eateries take the seats off the street, #CityHall needs to act quickly to find out what’s wrong because the decline of other things (including tax revenue) is sure to follow.
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When scouting a place for a photo shoot, I look first for streets with #StreetTrees because if the people on a street love their street trees enough to keep them healthy, they’re likely to love their homes as well, so it’s a good street.
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Can you walk to buy fresh vegetables?
How many minutes of walking takes you to your morning coffee?
Are the streets along the way shaded in summer?
Or can you walk to these places at all?
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Squealing tires on a regular basis are a sign of the mashup of immature drivers and streets that are too wide. On properly-sized streets, all but the idiots and teens drive more cautiously.
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Struggling towns serious about recovery encourage #SingleCrewWorkplaces, where one or two people can start a business. They're tiny, like a #FoodCart & cost far less than bricks & mortar stores.
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A four foot sidewalk indicates your town isn't serious about people walking. Two people can't walk comfortably side-by-side on a four-foot sidewalk, and two people passing each other have to turn sideways to pass without bumping each other.
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How many of these places do you walk to:
Grocery
Coffee Shop
Post Office
Restaurant
Bookstore
Hardware Store
Pharmacy
Doctor
Dentist
Accountant
0: #sprawl
1-2: recovering place
3-5: good #urbanism
6+: great urbanism
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What's the smallest house your city will allow?
1800 square feet & up: you probably live in #sprawl & service industry people can't afford to live there & increase traffic congestion.
No limit: your town is more interesting than sprawl.
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Stand on a street corner in the early evening and count the number of people crossing the intersection in cars, and those on foot and on #bikes. If more are self-propelled, the place likely has strong #WalkAppeal.
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If you see tall pylons signs you can be sure you’re in #sprawl; they’re so tall & large because they’re designed to be seen from great distances by people in vehicles traveling at great speed. Places with great #WalkAppeal only need small signs.
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At an intersection, step off the back of curb from the point where it begins to curve to where the curve ends.
15 paces or more: highly unsafe to cross
7. 5 paces or less: moderately safe
3 paces or less w/on-street parking: good #urbanism
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In most places it takes weeks or months to get a building permit. Find a place where people are allowed to go out and build with little more than a napkin sketch and you may have found a place guided by #LivingTraditions.
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#PopUp shops happen easily in good #urbanism with high #WalkAppeal because there are nooks and crannies where they can be right in the action but not in the way. But #sprawl engineered #stroads are designed solely for cars with nothing left over.
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Find street performers and you’re likely in a place with high #WalkAppeal surrounded by good #urbanism. Has anyone ever in the past century seen a mime in a Walmart parking lot? A street artist in a subdivision? A musician in an office park?
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There is no greater indicator of failure to achieve #urbanism than the large surface parking lot. Find several of those and you’ve found sprawl.
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Find a street where people take cute dogs out for walks hoping to strike up conversations with attractive humans (you know the drill) and you’ll find a place with high #WalkAppeal that’s probably enclosed by #LovableArchitecture.
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Do parents let their kids play hide-and-seek in public places? If so, it’s likely a place with very low fear, and with lots of #EyesOnTheStreet.
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Every city and town needs a place so romantic that people use it as a backdrop for their #WeddingPictures. Nobody ever takes wedding pictures on a cul-de-sac or at a strip center in #sprawl.
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A #PlaceForDebates is a sign both of good #urbanism and a tradition of #civility in that city. Many European cities have this; almost no US cities do, but should.
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