People Places

Edited by John December.

These pages present information about pedestrian-oriented places, enabled by transit, which are pleasant and healthy locations to live, work, shop, and play. click here to read more Read more about. Comments? Email john@december.com with the subject line places-people.

Additions and updates to this site.
Latest: Added book notes for A Certain Somehwere.

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Article feeds and links to periodicals or blogs about people places issues.
Examples:
· Planetizen feed
· Cyburbia threadspotting

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Ideas or opinion pieces about improving people-oriented places.
Examples:
· Idea: The Transit Home
· Idea: Parking Cash-Out

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Accounts of actual, operating places that support people-orientation.
Examples:
· Best Walking Cities in America
· Home Zones

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· Pictures

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Presentations on the theory and practice of urban spaces.
Examples:
· Andrés Duany lecture in San Antonio

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Books and notes about urban studies and criticism, history, planning, architecture, transportation, and cultural geography.
Examples:
Cities by John Reader.
The Wealth of Cities by John Norquist.

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Web sites about human mobility, transportation, and urban concepts.
Examples:
· Walkable Communities
· Surface Transportation Policy Project
· Kindred Sites

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Vocabulary words and links to glossaries showing areas of interest.
Examples:
· Transit-Oriented Development
· Complete Street

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Perspective on making places more friendly for people, with citation links.
Example: Over 3,200 people dead each day in traffic accidents--World report on road traffic injury prevention

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