clipped from www.indyweek.com

City leaders are intent on changing development patterns from strictly suburban to newly urban—and on designating specific transit corridors where it's possible to create the dense, but also walkable, bikeable places that appeal to young folks and empty nesters, too.

"Placemaking is not just the act of building or fixing up a space, but a whole process that fosters the creation of vital public destinations: the kind of places where people feel a strong stake in their communities," according to PPS. "Simply put, placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration and potential."

Such public involvement will be even more critical, she adds, as Raleigh moves from the old single-use model of development to mixed-use and greater densities in core areas. "Any time you have to mix up your life with something or somebody else that's different, it's a lot more complicated," Franklin says, laughing.

they should "work like a necklace of pearls

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