Playborhood by Mike Lanza

This book is full of practical suggestions for creating a truly kid-friendly neighborhood, and I’m excited to begin putting them into practice. I especially enjoyed the case studies in which Lanza describes successful “playborhoods” around the country; they demonstrate that there are many ways to accomplish this goal. Most of all, I appreciated the way that Lanza’s pragmatic, incremental approach makes a big cultural shift feel like something I can accomplish in my own neighborhood.