"Main Street needs to be ripped out and recast as a serious walkable main street," he added.

As one of the oldest planned cities in the country, Savannah is known for compact, walkable streets and beautifully landscaped historic squares.

The project's design will incorporate concepts from New Urbanism, a neo-traditional architectural movement that emphasizes walkable streets, attractive public spaces and a nearby town center.

The car is a symbol, they say -the most tangible manifestation of the loss of communal space, walkable streets and sites of free expression.

Within four years, we hope to see a traditional yet sustainable and walkable main street on Prospect Avenue.

With a GPS on the mobile phone, the scores are mapped which allows people to know the most walkable and unwalkable streets.

They offer houses on narrow, walkable streets that lead to parks, gardens, shops and even, in some cases, neighborhood schools.

But they also like the small-town friendliness, the older homes and the convenience of a walkable main street.

Hundreds of new, small-scale, urban and suburban infill projects are under way to reestablish walkable streets and blocks.

Most participants embrace an urban design movement that advocates walkable streets and a denser mix of houses and stores rather than urban sprawl.