Sarasota Livin'

Humor in City Zoning?? anyone that know's about the "Onion" will know what this is about...

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CoolTown Studios with a story on a great looking design for a walkable neighborhood - for China.

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A comment there took me to Walkable Neighborhoods Blog where I found this...

A Walkable Neighborhood is a place where people live within walking distance to most places they want to visit, whether it is school, work, a grocery store, a park, church, a bank, retail shops, a drug store, and so on.

A Walkable Neighborhood is a place where walking, biking, or mass transit are the preferred means of transportation, and motorized vehicles are used on rare occasions.

A Walkable Neighborhood is an environment that is pleasant and safe to walk or bike in at all hours of the day.

A Walkable Neighborhood is a place that is accessible to ALL persons, including those with disabilities, and is compliant with the regulations of the American Disabilities Act (ADA).

A Walkable Neighborhood is a place where children can walk or bike safely to school in a friendly environment, and costly school buses are not necessary.

A Walkable Neighborhood is a place that has a distinctive identity or character that people want to visit, often referred to as a sense of place.

A Walkable Neighborhood is a building block of the walkable community, where neighborhoods are interconnected, but maintain their own distinctive qualities and characteristics.

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Then I somehow got to CommonGround and this story about "Oakland's Affordable Housing Hero" --
Michael Pyatok helps poor and working-class families design their own living spaces. To date, Pyatok has designed over 12,000 units of affordable housing for low-income households.

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Then to University of Minnesota Center for Sustainable Building Research which has lots of great links.

Way too much info out there in cyberspace (not sure anyone uses that word anymore...)