START WITH ASSESSING THE RISK TO YOUR OWN PROPERTY/COMMUNITY
The Congress for New Urbanism advocates for walkable, compact, mixed-used, transit-oriented communities.
An article in its Public Square online magazine summarized the environmental benefits of walkable places, adapted from the “Cities Alive” report by Arup, a multinational engineering and design firm.
The sustainable/resilient benefits include: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, improving water management and urban microclimates, encouraging transportation that isn’t automobile-dependent and minimizing land use —
because it is easier to focus adaptation infrastructure on compact development
versus sprawl.
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