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The Quest to Make the Perfect Place

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:33:18
Publish Date: 2016-12-05 03:00:00
Description: Imagine a place where you can stroll down the sidewalk, wave to your

neighbors on their porch, then pick up your dry cleaning or have lunch at the café.

That’s the kind of walkable, compact, mixed-use community envisioned by the

founders of New Urbanism—including Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. But some people say

there’s a reason one of Plater-Zyberk’s developments played a starring role in a

memorable Hollywood film about overly constructed reality.
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