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This article outlines a methodology that assesses urbanity in three dimensions, density, diversity, and design, and creates a way to measure each dimension according to its influence on transit usage and walkability.
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27610
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Urban Designer Matt Tomasulo is passionate about making creative use of public spaces. Working in the Triangle area, he has started such urban design projects as the Raleigh Beach, a traveling biergarten, CityFabric, and Walk [Raleigh]. The success of Walk [Raleigh] has caused BlueCross Blue Shield of North Carolina to team up with Tomasulo for the Walk [Your City] campaign which encourages residents to walk to destinations in their cities rather than drive. Walk [Your City] is now in six continents and and six different communities in Raleigh have been chosen with Tomasulo to increase walkability.
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31118
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Published here is an extended abstract of a UNC Department of City and Regional Planning master's thesis voted the best of 2013. Dennerlein's project uses results of a Health Impact Study to determine the health benefits of a small area plan proposed within the Blue Ridge Road Corridor in Raleigh, NC.
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31208
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Hillsborough Tourism Board and the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough plan to develop a Churton Street Corridor Improvement Plan based of a winning design by a group of UNC Department od City and Regional Planning Students.
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Explained by this local historian, whose work experience included museums and a library, were reasons for the layout of streets in Fayetteville. She concluded the layout can be confusing for even town natives. What was easier for her to explain were name origins for roadways such as Green Street and Ottis F. Jones Parkway.
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