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Neighborhood centers

Contributed by: DR. SEAN REIF D.C. on 7/7/2006

A center is the focal point of one or more neighborhoods. Centers provide convenient access to shops, restaurants and community oriented services such as day care, libraries, and meeting halls. There are shorter auto trips and more walking and bicycling in a center since residential and commercial areas are near one another. Attractive and safe pedestrian connections from the surrounding neighborhood to the center encourage people to walk or bike to destinations in the center such as transit stations, bus stops or businesses. Ideally, centers should support both daytime and evening activities to create an attractive and safe neighborhood destination.

Neighborhood Centers
These centers are small areas which serve every day shopping, service, or entertainment needs of one or several neighborhoods. A neighborhood center may also contain offices and employ nearby residents. Occasionally, boutique shopping or popular restaurants act as a regional draw. Good pedestrian and bus transportation links are central characteristics of neighborhood centers.

Regional and Town Centers
These are similar to neighborhood centers but meet a larger variety of shopping, entertainment needs and are large enough to serve several neighborhoods. Specialty shops, (ethnic products, baked goods, apparel, toys, etc.) entertainment and other types of unique services attract people to town and regional centers from across the city.

Urban design features such as plazas, landscaping, small parks contribute to making these places of community activity. Town or Regional Centers include the Northglenn Marketplace. Cherry Creek in Denver is an example of a regional center where a major shopping center is at the core of many other uses concentrated in a small area.

Pedestrian Shopping Corridor
A pedestrian shopping corridor exhibits the same land use as a town or neighborhood center, but it orients those uses in a linear pattern. These corridors are designed to be compatible with surrounding residential neighborhoods. Pedestrian amenities, such as a continuous street frontage of building and wide sidewalks; good transit services; are all common characteristics of pedestrian shopping corridors. The land-use and transportation system should be designed and improved to accommodate many types of travel including walking and buses.


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