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Safeway at Mission Bay

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This small-format Safeway at 298 King St. in San Francisco sits at the terminal of the Caltrain commuter rail line and the intersection of two street-running light rail lines.

Mixed-use big box

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Bayshore Town Center (from Port Washington Road)

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The internal streets at Bayshore Town Center frame a town square and are lined with shops and restaurants, but the project presents a gaping parking decks, several surface lots, and only a few leftover storefronts to the major streets lining its perimeter. The project illustrates a point that urban designer Seth Harry often makes: that typical town center retailers like the Gap or Williams-Sonoma have business model that depends on drawing customers from throughout the region. As a result, in most cases the parking and infrastructure needs of these regional retailers begin to dominate the urban environment that's created, costing the development a fully satisfying sense of place.

Western Approach to Bayshore Town Center

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The internal streets at Bayshore Town Center frame a town square and are lined with shops and restaurants, but the project presents a gaping parking decks, several surface lots, and only a few leftover storefronts to the major streets lining its perimeter. The project illustrates a point that urban designer Seth Harry often makes: that typical town center retailers like the Gap or Williams-Sonoma have business models that depend on drawing customers from throughout the region. As a result, in most cases the parking and infrastructure needs of these regional retailers begin to dominate the urban environment that's created, costing the development a fully satisfying sense of place.

Parking-Count Sign at Bayshore Town Center

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When the former Bayshore mall became the mixed-use Bayshore Town Center, this sign appeared at a busy corner of the property to reassure shoppers and office users that parking spaces were available for them inside. At all times but the busy weeks before Christmas, however, the sign and others like it reveal the prodigious amounts of surplus parking at the center. And that parking has costs, as well as benefits. Since the center's array of stores, restaurants, and offices (a small number of townhouses are coming) are wedged into a relatively small site along with enough parking to satisfy standard suburban parking ratios, large parking decks and unsightly surface lots greet visitors from many of the major entrances, creating a dubious welcome to an urban project.  See related images.

Food Store at Poundbury

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Poundbury, Dorchester, County of Dorset, England: Poundbury is a traditional urban extension to the town of Dorchester, master planned by Leon Krier for HRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall. As of early 2007 1200 people live at Poundbury and 750 work there, in workplaces mixed into the community. This is an image of the small grocery store at the centre of the first neighbourhood, now complete.

Excelsior & Grand (1)

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Dusk view of mixed-use retail and residential along Grand Way in St. Louis Park, Minn.

Cafe at Poundbury

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Poundbury is a traditional urban extension to the town of Dorchester, master planned by Leon Krier for HRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall. As of early 2007 1200 people live at Poundbury and 750 work there, in workplaces mixed into the community. 
This is an image of a cafe in Pommery Square, one of the neighbourhood centres.

Retail at Poundbury

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Poundbury is a mixed use, mixed income urban extension to the town of Dorchester, master planned by Leon Krier for the Prince of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall. It is planned around walkable neighbourhoods, and this image depicts the successful grocery store on Pommery Square in the first neighbourhood.

The Corner at Eastern Market

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