**Winner; Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment****A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**After decades of sprawl; many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity); divided neighborhoods; and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we can change this. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier; more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Gravel came up with a way to do just that in his hometown with the Atlanta Beltline project. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools; shopping districts; and public parks; and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue.Similar projects are in the works around the country; from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. In Where We Want to Live; Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.
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