Belgium doesn't have a monopoly on cute and walkable.
Amazing Slate.com slideshow on Forest Hills, in Queens, NYC. It suggests that an attractive mix of housing types on a curvy but walkable grid can work in a US suburb. And that it did. A hundred years ago.
E. Mattiuzzi
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