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The Benefits of Mixed-Use Development in Urban Areas
A plain-language definition of mixed-use development, the common building and block patterns, and who tends to benefit, with the trade-offs stated honestly.
Streets and Public Spaces
Mixed-Use Development
Combining homes, shops and workplaces, and the density that supports them.
The Benefits of Mixed-Use Development in Urban Planning
How zoning codes and related planning tools allow or block mixing homes, shops and workplaces, and what planners can change to make mixed use legal.
The Benefits of Mixed-Use Development in Urban Renewal
How single-use sites such as old malls, industrial lots and parking fields can become mixed-use districts, and the phasing and financing hurdles involved.
The Benefits of Mixed-Use Development: A Case Study
A step-by-step walk through a clearly labeled hypothetical mixed-use block, showing how the pieces fit together and where the results are uncertain.
The Benefits of Mixed-Use Development: A Key to Successful Urban Renewal
Tests the claim that mixed use drives street activity, with the conditions that make it work and the ones, like noise and conflicting uses, that make it fail.
The Economics of Density: How Urban Planning Can Reduce Costs
Explains how denser development can lower per-household infrastructure and service costs, and where crowding, congestion and upgrades offset the savings.
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