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It seems to me that to start with, you can change the street itself. Just put a big grassy median to narrow the street, slowing down traffic and making walking easier.
Then you start the process of bringing the shops closer to the street. If you were a dictator, you could just tear down everything. But in the real world, you'll have to settle for eliminating minimum parking and setback requirements for existing buildings, and requiring new structures to be closer to the street. How's that for a start?
180 degree reversal: auto strip arterial to walkable main street. Has it been done?
I was giving a talk in Florida. The Town Manager helped me focus by asking a question about her town: "How do we reverse an existing auto-oriented strip into walkable urbanism — as we already have here?" It's a profound question. The difficulties are severe. How to do it? (I take for granted tha...
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