Pocket Neighborhoods • Creating Small Scale Community in a Large …
WEBHere you’ll find information about small-scale neighborhoods that make a big difference in the quality and health of our lives. You’ll get an overview of key ideas about pocket neighborhoods, look at case studies and site plans, learn about innovative zoning codes, read blog entries from Ross Chapin and others in the field, follow the ...
Pocket Neighborhoods • Creating Small Scale Community in a Large …
WEBA pocket neighborhood is not the wider neighborhood of several hundred households and network of streets, but a realm of a dozen or so neighbors who interact on a daily basis around a shared garden, quiet street or alley — a kind of …
Pocket Neighborhoods - Creating Small Scale Community in a Large …
WEBNov 18, 2013 · Pocket neighborhoods can help mend a web of belonging, care and support. Their protected setting encourages informal interaction among neighbors, laying the ground for caring relationships. An elderly neighbor may …
Ten ways to build small-scale urbanism - CNU
WEBAug 1, 2022 · Building small has advantages in cost, time, ease of approval, ease of entry, and the character of the finished product. Small-scale urbanism has the support of multiple mini-movements, and here are ten ways to do it.
How to Create a Pocket Park for Your Community | Playworld
WEBA pocket park, also called a mini park, is a small public park usually located in an urban center and designed to serve a specific segment of a community. Pocket parks function as smaller-scale neighborhood parks and are typically only as …
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large …
WEBMar 29, 2011 · Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, placeless sprawl ― small scale neighborhoods where people can easily know one another, where empty nesters and single householders with far-flung families can find friendship or a helping …
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Pocket Neighborhoods and Microvillages - The Microvillage
WEBMar 14, 2018 · Microvillages and pocket neighborhoods share many common traits: removing the primacy of the car, increasing community interaction, common green spaces, prioritizing privacy, and creating intentional and secluded neighborhoods.
Pocket Neighborhoods • Creating Small Scale Community in a Large …
WEBPlanners, developers, architects and citizen activists asked about the zoning that made it possible, the kinds of people who lived there, and how pocket neighborhoods fit into existing communities.
Pocket Neighborhoods: Why Small Developments are The Next Big …
WEBMar 14, 2022 · Pocket neighborhoods are small developments of 12 houses or fewer that are specifically designed to encourage neighborly interaction. By structuring the development around common areas and purposefully keeping homes on the small side, these little neighborhoods can have big benefits.
15 Charming Tiny House Communities - Bob Vila
WEBAug 6, 2022 · These tiny home neighborhoods are popping up in cities and towns throughout the country.