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Walkability
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Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
10 Priorities For Health And Wellbeing In Cities
The world is developing fast. As time goes on, we live longer, more urban, and more connected. As…
Why Walkable Cities Are Good For The Economy, According To A City Planner
People spend more money when cities are less vehicle-oriented. You’ve probably seen the term “walkability” thrown around in…
Encouraging City Dwellers To Walk More
Many cities today are saddled with high car dependency, wider roads, fewer pedestrian-friendly streets, increased pollution and inevitably,…
Green Space, Benches, Sidewalks Needed To Create Age-Friendly Cities
For seniors, the benefits of walking are huge. Research shows that regular walking improves balance and coordination, builds…
Walkable Cities Reduce Blood Pressure & Hypertension Risk, Study Finds
Research finds significant link between the walkability of a city and the blood pressure and hypertension risk of…
16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
IF YOU THINK the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like…
How Much Can Cities Do About Walkability?
A lot of what fosters it is out of their control, but a little audacity goes a long…
Promote Walking For Health? How About For Whimsical Fun?
In Covington, Kentucky, local businesses and design teams collaborated on quirky installations that take up as much space…
What Makes People Use Public Transport?
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more cities have realized that investment priority should…
Why Transit-Oriented Developments Do Not Need Transit
Urban planners have invested a lot of energy in the idea of transit-oriented developments (TODs). Developing dense housing…
How Cities And Obesity Are Intertwined
In a city like Lausanne, Switzerland, urban planning could be both a cause of and solution to obesity.…
How Road Diet Works For Urban Mobility
Planner Jeff Speck leads a video tour of four different street redesigns. A road diet is a great…
The Most Walkable Cities In Texas
When it comes to walkable cities, Texas tends to get a failing grade. It’s well-deserved: compared with cities…
Declining Walkability Plays Big Role In China’s Obesity Problem
But it’s the middle class, not the poor who may pay the biggest price. In China’s…
Walkonomics And The High Line Effect
Investing in walkable public spaces should be a no-brainer; they can be a catalyst for regeneration, make…
10 Most Walkable Cities In America
Cities that make life easier for pedestrians are, to many, better places to live. Studies have shown that…
Expanding Walkability In African Cities
Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent. Transit in cities will have to adapt to encourage walkability…
The Future Of Walkable Cities, Now
To walk in our cities is more than just a simple act of transport. Walking represents an appropriation…
Jeff Speck : The Walkable City
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free…
Cities That Make Us Smile
How do we decide what we like and what we choose? Many will say – or like to…
How Stockholm Became The Ultimate Walkable City
The quality of life in many neighbourhoods in the Swedish capital is directly influenced by a decision to…
NYC, San Francisco On Different Paths To Pedestrian Safety
New York’s Vision Zero campaign turns one this month. In the year since Mayor Bill de Blasio held…
Better Design For Saving Pedestrians
New York city police are stepping up efforts to rein in jaywalkers after cars struck and killed several…
10 Techniques For Making Cities More Walkable
In Jeff Speck’s excellent new book, Walkable City, he suggests that there are ten keys to creating walkability.…
Within Walking Distance
New research from Southern California has found that residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and…