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The pockets of retail & restaurants dotted throughout residential neighbourhoods in the Netherlands bring a liveliness and utility to the neighbourhood - and even help solve traffic congestion. Learn how this kind of urban design has been illegal in most of the US and Canada for a century, and why it should be brought back.

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Image & Video Credits:

Video of walking Taipei courtesy of Taiwan4K:
youtube.com/watch?v=GkfBrSh2-Nc

City Beautiful - An Introduction to Zoning:
youtube.com/watch?v=9kVWDWMcLT4

Photograph of Widnes in the late 19th century showing the effects of industrial pollution (public domain):
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Widnes_Smoke.jp

Zoning map of London, Ontario © 2003-2020 City Of London:
london.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=20327d3bcfb34bb488a7c3f74c05d2d3

City Beautiful - The Case Against Single-Family Zoning:
youtube.com/watch?v=ajSEIdjkU8E

Canadian Shows Milk in Bags by DeadVoidStudios (YouTube) (Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)):
youtube.com/watch?v=f90_WksXi60

That one little pocket of commercial within a residential neighbourhood on the London, Ontario zoing map is this conveniece store and haircutters:
google.com/maps/@43.0092242,-81.3111312,3a,75y,300.41h,73.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saHEY1TlETYpmGmZ-WO2wHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Map of the "Yellow Belt" in Toronto, MapTO:
http://www.mapto.ca/maps/2017/3/4/the-yellow-belt

The "Yellow Belt" concept comes originally from urban planner Gil Meslin:
twitter.com/g_meslin

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