Connecting Places, Connecting People: A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century

What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion?

The era of car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place in developed countries, and is rapidly doing...