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The Saucier Town Plan - Overhead

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Cafe at Poundbury

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  • Leon Krier
  • Mixed-Use
  • pedestrian-friendly
  • Poundbury
  • retail
  • town center
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.
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Lane at Poundbury

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  • Prince Charles
Poundbury is an mixed use, mixed income urban extension master planned by Leon Krier for HRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchy of Cornwall. One of the key principles is to accommodate the automobile while favouring the pedestrian. This lane radiates off of a neighbourhood centre, and it includes affordable houses "pepper-potted" among market rate housing.
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DPZ Urban

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  • Mixed-Use
  • Neighborhood
  • pedestrian-friendly
  • walkable
Duany Plater-Zyberk's standards for a new neighborhood are based upon Clarence Perry's 1929 diagrams (which described walkable neighborhoods such as Forest Hills, NY and Radburn, NJ).
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5-minute walk

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  • pedestrian-friendly
  • quarter-mile shed
  • Transit-Oriented Development
People will walk a quarter-mile to catch a bus, but when rail transit is available and the route is pleasant, they'll walk up to half a mile. Too many transit stops are engulfed by parking lots and freeways rather than compatible development that supports
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15th & Pearl Mixed-Use Structure

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  • Boulder
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  • mall
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Education Neighborhood in North Allston

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Allston's New Main Street

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