Main Street Disaster and Resilience Toolkit
This publication is designed to help Main Streets and commercial district organizations better prepare for and respond to more frequent and severe disasters.
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Our streets and transportation systems — especially around Main Street districts — determine how people can get to, connect with, and build up their communities, and they can also create the space for communal life to unfold.
Physical features and intentional community engagement are both at the heart of people-oriented street planning and design. Together, the physical elements of downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts and thoughtful community engagement with residents can impact overall connectivity, culture, health, sense of place, and belonging.
Car-oriented streets can create a sense of disconnectedness through:
Communities can reap many benefits from people-oriented streets through:
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