ABSTRACT
The keen observations of urbanist Jane Jacobs, in her landmark book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, have found renewed meaning in the urban renaissance that has taken place after more than half a century of devastating population decline. Starting in the last decade of the twentieth century and accelerating into the first decade and a half of the twenty-first, American cities are experiencing an unprecedented repopulation of their cores. This has been accomplished primarily with a plethora of walkable urban place-making projects or “WalkUPs,” discussed in the Idea Generation Sub-Phase of the Project Conception Phase of The Development Process and throughout this chapter. These new walkable places are proposed and developed with ever-more complex mixes of uses and presenting intensities of development never before imagined. How The Development Process is shaping new urban development, and how WalkUPs are reshaping The Development Process, are considered in this chapter.
