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Category Archives: Density
Steps To A Walkable Community
It can be hard to imagine what a walkable neighborhood might look like, or how we can go about creating it. The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a New York-based environmental advocacy group, which supports compact walkable development, has made available … Continue reading
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Sunshine State Shows How Density = $$$
“Where Urban Amenities Meets Small-Town Living”. That phrase, which fits Princeton perfectly, is in fact the motto of Sarasota, Florida. Sarasota, a community of 56,000 people, is itself the major urban center of Sarasota County. Unlike the Princeton area, Sarasota … Continue reading
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Looking For Walkable Solutions
We LOVE this image from urb.en. This gets at one of our key beliefs: that urban planning has for the last 50 years incentivized and promoted car-dependent living, to the extent that many of us require a car to accomplish … Continue reading
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Are New Ratables A Solution To Princeton’s Looming Tax Explosion?
Princeton is getting a tax cut! Hooray!!! Consolidation IS working. But despite the municipal savings that came from consolidation, Princeton taxpayers are still facing a hike in their tax bills in the medium-term. How can this be? One problem is … Continue reading
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Green Spaces and Courtyards
(Note-This post was updated 4.2.2013 in the light of ongoing developments regarding the proposed AvalonBay development at the former Princeton Hospital site.) At the southwestern end of Nassau Street in downtown Princeton lies a number of beautiful buildings that are … Continue reading
1937: The Year Palmer Square Brought Smart Growth To Princeton
Palmer Square, at the heart of downtown Princeton, offers a mixture of stores, boutiques, restaurants, and condominium homes-among much more-all centered around an attractive park-like square. Loved by almost everyone in the community, walkable Palmer Square is listed as the … Continue reading
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The Thin Green Line
New Jersey has the highest population density of any US state. However, a glance at the population density state-wide (above left, and higher definition version here) shows that we are distributed very unequally. Large areas of the state, most notably … Continue reading
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New Jersey Needs More Walkable Homes
This link is from NJ Future, a nonprofit organization that promotes responsible land use. The author points out how demographic changes and a recognition that car-dependent lifestyles bring traffic and sprawl has resulted in a huge pent-up demand for walkable … Continue reading
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