The blind-hostile DMV: Blind pedestrian safety questions scarce on drivers tests

If the ideas mentioned in the following book were utilized with a greater degree of frequency by urban planners, perhaps, more communities would be more pedestrian friendly thus benefiting both blind and sighted alike!

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, RC 52208, by Andres Duany and others.

Three planners offer ways to "once again build and inhabit places worth caring about." They use examples of old and new communities (including two revitalized by their firm) to explain the differences between suburban sprawl and traditional neighborhoods. Discusses how many aspects that make older communities more livable are often against code.