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{{Short description|Urban planning for mixed-use areas prioritising pedestrians}}
A '''pedestrian village''' is a compact, pedestrian-oriented neighborhood or town with a [[Engineering:Mixed-use development|mixed-use]] village center.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cheung |first1=Esther |title=Transforming Suburbia : The Networked Pedestrian Village of Bayview Hills |url=https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/817 |language=en |date=2004}}</ref> Shared-use lanes for pedestrians and those using bicycles, Segways, wheelchairs, and other small rolling conveyances that do not use internal combustion engines. Generally, these lanes are in front of the houses and businesses, and streets for motor vehicles are always at the rear. Some pedestrian villages might be nearly car-free with cars either hidden below the buildings, or on the boundary  of the village. Venice, Italy is essentially a pedestrian village with canals. Other examples of a pedestrian village include Giethoorn village located in the Dutch province of Overijssel, Netherlands,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Giethoorn: The village without roads |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/giethoorn-in-netherlands-the-vllage-without-roads/photostory/34780586.cms |access-date=2022-06-17 |newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref> Mont-Tremblant Pedestrian Village located beside Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pedestrian Village |url=https://officialmonttremblant.com/discover-tremblant/three-villages/pedestrian-village/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Official Mont Tremblant |language=en-US}}</ref> and Culdesac Tempe in Tempe, Arizona.<ref name="Culdesac">{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Ryan|date=2020-06-22|title=Introducing Culdesac|url=https://medium.com/culdesac/introducing-culdesac-3fbfe7c4219c|access-date=2022-09-11|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref>

[[Image:Venice Walk Street.png|right|thumb|300px|A walk street in Venice, California, built around 1905]]

The canal district in Venice, California, on the other hand, combines the front lane/rear street approach with canals and walkways, or just walkways.

==See also==
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*{{Annotated link|15 minute city}}
*{{Annotated link|Active living}}
*{{Annotated link|Active mobility}}
*{{Annotated link|Compact city}}
* List of car-free places
* [[Engineering:New Urbanism|New Urbanism]]
*{{Annotated link|Obesity and walking}}
*''[[Engineering:Principles of intelligent urbanism|Principles of intelligent urbanism]]''
*{{Annotated link|Sustainable Development Goal 11}}
*[[Engineering:Urban vitality|Urban vitality]]
*[[Engineering:Walkability|Walkability]]
*[[Engineering:Walking audit|Walking audit]]

'''Infrastructure:'''
* {{Annotated link|Automotive city}}
* {{Annotated link|Bicycle-friendly}}
* {{Annotated link|Carfree city}}
* {{Annotated link|Compact city}}
* {{Annotated link|Complete streets}}
* {{Annotated link|Cycling infrastructure}}
* {{Annotated link|Esplanade}}
* {{Annotated link|Pedestrian zone}}
* {{Annotated link|Transit-oriented development}}
* {{Annotated link|Transit village}}
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==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190902113729/http://www.pedestrianvillages.com/ Pedestrian Villages website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618032202/http://www.worldcarfree.net/ World Carfree Network]
* [http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/ Village Homes, Davis, California]

[[Category:Urban planning]]

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