They started by filling in the parking places. It was a citizen-driven planning process. Community fundamentals include municipal services, civic institutions, economic development, education, health care, arts and culture, environment, communications, transportation and physical design. Cities can be green and wonderful. Digging up the creeks that we buried and making them the focus of a community.
Schools are a huge issue.
Most people who live in cities and who love cities encounter big problems when it comes to schools. The issue between education and transportation is an issue of physical design. We can now use technology to show people how a streetscape can be transformed. In Hillsborough, New Jersey, which has a population of 30,000, they did an electronic street survey which allowed people to vote on what their streetscape would look like and how much they were prepared to pay. People make very different decisions when they are looking at things at eye level.