A diverse range of restaurants, bakeries, convenience stores, or cafes in a residential neighborhood makes a city more walkable, creates unique and attractive places, benefits the local economy, and serves as social gathering spaces for the community, otherwise known as the Third Place.
Unfortunately, most of the US and Canada can’t build places like this.

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➜ References & Further Reading:
Neighborhoods and Social Interaction
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

The Death of the Neighborhood Grocery Store
https://www.southernurbanism.org/p/zo...

The Third Place
   • The Great Places Erased by Suburbia (...  

Copy-and-Paste Towns
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
https://www.randomhousebooks.com/book...

The Need for Aged Buildings
   • The Need for Aged Buildings |  Jane J...  

Parking rules threaten one of KC area’s few Black coffee shops
https://www.yahoo.com/news/heartbreak...

WA won’t legalize cafes in residential neighborhoods, lawmakers decide
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...

The Downtown Office District Was Vulnerable. Even Before Covid.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

Parklets
https://nacto.org/publication/urban-s...

CaféTO 2021 Public Survey Result Summary
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2...

Some Business Owners REALLY Hate Bike Lanes:
   • Some Business Owners REALLY Hate Bike...  

San Francisco restaurant owner goes on 30-day hunger strike over new bike lane
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Why Local Businesses Shouldn’t Worry About Eliminating On-Street Parking
https://www.fastcompany.com/3067515/w...

Cyclists and Pedestrians Can End Up Spending More Each Month Than Drivers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business
https://tcat.ca/resources/bike-lanes-...

Bloor Street Bike Lane Economic Impact Studies
https://tcat.ca/resources/bloor-stree...

How pandemic bike lanes made some Canadian cities more accessible
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pande...

➜ Timestamps:
0:00 Suburbs should be walkable too
1:57 Benefits of diverse neighborhoods
4:46 Outdated laws ruin everything
6:47 Mixed-use developments
8:12 Old & new buildings
10:39 Post-pandemic recovery
11:31 Cars are BAD for small businesses
14:06 It's time to build better places

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