History of the Strategic Regional Policy Plan

History of the Strategic Regional Policy Plan      
Overview of the Orientation Series        
Neighborhood Scale        
Neighborhood Center and Edge        
Streets, Blocks, and Alleys: Achieving a Network of Walkable Streets        
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Much debate has occurred about how much retail a neighborhood can support. This image from a 1942 Clarence Stein drawing demonstrates how neighborhoods become interconnected and related to one another. Primary retail areas naturally congregate at the intersection of primary streets of the neighborhoods.