{"content":[{"text":"Creating Walkable \n Neighborhood Business Districts:","bbox":{"left":0.262548,"top":0.102955,"width":0.4747969999999999,"height":0.057431000000000024}},{"text":"An exploration of the demographic and physical characteristics \n needed to support local retail services","bbox":{"left":0.182647,"top":0.178689,"width":0.634683,"height":0.04420200000000002}},{"text":"Gregory Easton \n John Owen \n June 2009","bbox":{"left":0.419903,"top":0.24201,"width":0.16008899999999993,"height":0.07466899999999999}},{"text":"Introduction \n Creating walkable, transit-friendly communities is a necessary \n component in the larger effort to reduce our environmental \n impacts and carbon footprint, improve human health, and \n increase social resilience. And, creating successful \n neighborhood commercial districts that provide day-to-day \n needs is an essential element in fostering healthy \n neighborhoods. Those engaged in community development \n are often confronted with questions related to the amount and \n configuration of residential development necessary to support \n a cluster of neighborhood-serving businesses. This question \n arises in planning contexts ranging from established urban \n neighborhoods to arterial corridors and emerging suburban \n centers of widely varying sizes and character.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.358612,"width":0.491408,"height":0.263183}},{"text":"This paper is aimed at the question: “What does it take to \n support a neighborhood business district around which to \n focus a walkable, cohesive community?” The first section \n examines what is meant by a neighborhood district and its role \n within the hierarchy of retail centers. Then follows an analysis \n of the development patterns necessary to support a business \n district which will, in turn, encourage pedestrian activity, social \n interaction, and transit ridership. Finally, there is a discussion \n of the implications of this analysis to a variety of settings, from \n older urban neighborhoods to metropolitan cores, linear \n transportation corridors, and suburban centers.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.635625,"width":0.49648300000000006,"height":0.19579000000000002}},{"text":"MAKERS architecture and urban design","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.947157,"width":0.291597,"height":0.017483999999999944}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.902647,"top":0.947157,"width":0.009102999999999972,"height":0.017383000000000037}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}