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AN IDEAL MIXED-USE COMMUNITY has something approaching a jobs/housing balance. Since most places in America are either mostly residential or mostly commercial, the path to mixed use must logically take one of two directions: either adding commercial uses to residential neighborhoods, or adding residential uses to commercial neighborhoods. Of those two, the former is what we professionals call a theoretical possibility. It never happens.
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Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, (New York: Vintage Reissue, 1992), 154.
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Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), 107–8.
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Speck, J. (2018). Invest in Attainable Housing Downtown. In: Walkable City Rules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-899-2_6
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