Building NMT Community in the Urban NMT System

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This article discusses the NMT communities on the impact of urban environment and social issues, proposing the main problems existing in NMT communities are follows: The NMT paths are lack of systematic; the wide of NMT is not enough; mixed with the motor transportation; NMT environmental quality is not high. Then put forward some design methods: Set up a network of NMT combining with community environment; build up the NMT landscape suitable to human scale; community facilities design for NMT.

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