BOOK REVIEW: WALKING, DENSITY & NEIGHBORHOOD FORM
-> According to an April 9th Project for Public Spaces article, ..."To anyone who's tired of fighting an uphill battle in arguing for increased density in order to make the case for walkability, Julie Campoli's new book, 'Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form' (http://bit.ly/121Dwz9) will seem a god-send. Campoli, one of the co-authors of 'Visualizing Density' (also from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), has put together a powerful follow-up that brings the reader down into the streets of a dozen walkable neighborhoods that 'represent diverse regions and vary greatly in density, [while still meeting] the minimum density necessary to support transit and retail services.'"
"After the intro, the reader is brought through a succession of twelve case studies, each with extensive panoramic photography of key neighborhood streets stretching across the tops of the corresponding pages. Paging through for the first time, it is hard not to be dazzled by how well these images communicate almost everything that the companion text could hope to say. If a picture is worth a thousand words, these pictures together are worth a million."
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Title: "Book Review: Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form"
Author: Brendan Crain
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