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<br />LINK WORK TO HOME
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<br />the same development you work in:' he says;
<br />"there are a lot of criteria for where you choose
<br />your house, But if people can walk to a park, to
<br />midday shopping, restaurants and day care, it's
<br />better for the people working there."
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<br />11 SUBURBS ARE NO LONGER JUST BEDROOM
<br />communities; the dispersal of employ-
<br />ment out of the central cities has been
<br />going on for a generation, (As the writer William
<br />H. Whyte demonstrated two decades ago, big
<br />corporations leaving the city tend to relocate with- 13 PARKING IS ONE OF SUBURBIA'S HIGHEST
<br />m a few mil.. of the chi.. exeoutive', hou...) But ochiev........ Only in the United State,
<br />the re,.It-the nxymoronie "offiee parl<s" """,i>t- doe' the humhl..t eopy-obop 0' p;u.erla
<br />Ing of mdi,tiogui,hahle gIuo cubes amid a token 00..' '" much ,paee [0, .... no the ave_ city ball.
<br />fuzz of grass and a giant parking lot-is just a';r...;t-;>,..".,:: F1\EDEBICIlCHAIILES.; But it is also a curse; the vast acreage given over to
<br />bigI= cl... of 'pnowl than the .... ,latino' and '~~~i_.J~ nopbol. ;, .".!e.. f", any othe' puq><>". and goo'
<br />&ied-cbieken p"= that would have been buiI. __ _1eWIi1tl a'- unuoed more than half the time anyway. M"" plan-
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<br />fiees-o' factori... ro. that mntt"'- m.n eonnnu- ' ....... does..... ~;~ with e,..ntially the ..... "'"'" fo, .... '" ;t had 20
<br />nlli... Nobody wan" to live next to a "eel mill.' tIw1p101nniio:o.a;.~ y"'" ago. Develope'" often boUd more parldng than
<br />naturnlly. But m Loguna We". ou"ide Sa""""" ,.........IIIs...........~;\ they actually need; a half....pty lot ;, preswoed to
<br />to. people are happy to live withm a quarter-ma.:stte lofIn0:nin8hnoisini: .....nre prospective tenan" that they'll ..... roo
<br />of an Apple Comput.. plant. wbieb provid..,.2001nr YnoI.......\i.Y., Is aj#ii out of","", r", .he""", Yet a bank. a movie theat'"
<br />wbite-<<>llM and ""emhly-liue job.. Apple .greed '.lIIDII'!oI ~,_ ,But """'i. and a ebureh are all full at dare....t tUn... One ,impl,
<br />to locate there after the community was already NewI11an Is no. fan of the :'.: improvement towns can make is to look for ways to
<br />plannelikd; ddevheloPder PthahiI Angelides saysdthe com- ;.new.,!i'banl~t'lnstead:5: share and pool parking space among different users.
<br />pany e tel en t executive, an worlren ,The ideal-although expenoire-",lotion '0 th,
<br />oould affon! to lire m the """e eonnnunity. playa >.", ~'TItIs Is.......' parlciog problem I, ro. ""' to .....h und""""ond
<br />Vista, a new-urbanist community being planned: wrOriti'[withsuburbs],' ~\ when they get where they're going. A shopping center
<br />for Los Angeles, has been mentioned as a possible ' they should ask, 'Why dO. surrounded by acres of striped asphalt, whether it's
<br />home for the Dream Works SKG multimedia com- t peopl~ feel It's worth I.t...; empty or full, might as well put up a moat against
<br />pany. It oould he an updated -and very up..,.!e- ',toliwe ~r · , ". ped..trian,. Wge parlciog I... ,boold he ,'wated
<br />"""on ur the oompany town. wbieb m thi>.... L, " ",,,-'" ,,'-' behind boUdingo when- po..,hle-_ethiug
<br />will eomprise 13.000 houoe' and apartmen". ,bop,. a ",,1<. ""'" ,uhurl>an"",;ng ood.. don't eonently allow-and divided hy
<br />promenad.. and joggiug tmil, along the last tidal nuush m ,....... ~_ ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,m.o..,all.. _n" of _nd three
<br />the city. ""'" '" le... on-o"'" parlciog in ,.,;dential neigbborlwod' ~ eon"
<br />Caithoq>e he\ieveo that more ho,ine...' will move to new- """""ial. Some plann"" !avo< it. heca... it create, a "buff.,"
<br />urbanist projects as they grow disillusioned with the traffic and between pedestrians and traffic, but others consider it a danger to
<br />isolation of their offi,ce parks. "The idea is not necessarily to live in children running out between the cars.
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<br />SHRINK PARKING LOTS
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<br />MAKE A TOWN CENTER
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<br />12 Every town needs a center: a plaza,
<br />square or green that is a geographi-
<br />cal reference point and a focus of civic
<br />life - even if that just means a place to
<br />push a stroller or throw a Frisbee. Shop-
<br />ping malls are a poor substitute; the area
<br />they serve is too diffuse, and in any case
<br />their civic function is incidental to their
<br />real purpose -making money. Develop-
<br />ers often provide some parkland in their
<br />subdivisions, but it's usually on leftover
<br />parcels that wouldn't be built on anyway,
<br />by the edge of the highway or adjoining
<br />another subdivision.
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<br />S2 NEWSWEEK MAY IS. 1995
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