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City traffic -- Planning, Streets -- Planning, Pedestrian areas, Transportation, Automotive, Roads -- Design and construction, Transit-oriented development, Sustainable urban development, Community development, Urban, Segregation, Vocation -- Christianity, Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- ChristianityShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The embrace of buildings: a second look at walkable city neighborhoods
2017, Calvin College Press
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1937555259 9781937555252
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"The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the rise of the private automobile as the primary mode of transportation, the effects of functional zoning laws, the relation between the public realm and the quality of civic discourse, the influence of modernism on city planning, the impact of low-density development on public health, the connection between development and city budgets, the impact of urbanism on the environment, and the problem of gentrification. In a culture long enamored of the suburban ideal, Hardy invites his readers to reconsider the many advantages of living and working in walkable city neighborhoods - compact neighborhoods characterized by a fine network of pedestrian-friendly streets, mixed land uses, mixed housing types, and a full range of transit options. In addition, he investigates the role religion has played in defining American attitudes towards the city, and the difference church location makes in Christian ministry and mission."
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