Introducing Mixed Use Cores

This blog discusses the most important thing we must do if we are to really save energy and limit climate change. This is to improve how our cities and regions are organized! Specifically, we must vigorously transform every possible village, neighborhood and center of employment, services or transport into a compact, largely self sufficient, walkable and livable, mixed use development.

We have built many such areas and enjoy their success. But mostly we have failed. And the values they provide are no longer just a luxury. Rather, they are essential to overcoming many of the most critical problems we face. They directly benefit the environment and save energy. They also improve health, job access, make everything more affordable and contribute to a more equitable, sustainable and civil society.

This blog specifically supports and draws from the web site mixedusecores.com and many other sources. This provides a wide range of information about the need for and benefits of such cores and of how they should be planned. I hope that it will encourage every reader to think about how we build our cities and towns and to share their ideas about how we might do this more effectively.

I will regularly bring new information and ideas to the blog on this subject which I hope you will find interesting. And I hope that any and all who have valuable ideas to add will do the same.

Welcome aboard!