Walkable Urbanism: When your city is looking in the wrong direction.
In cases where cities have little control over the roads, there’s a disincentive to focus on them.
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Walkability and the culture wars
Even if you do take this study’s results at face value, it’s a stretch to interpret its major takeaway as, “Most Americans don’t want walkable places.”
The American Alley, Part 4: Rediscovering the Forgotten Human Scale
It is time that we recognize that the potential for spatially formed, human-scaled, beautiful, and prosperous urban places already lies within every urban block.
The American Alley, Part 3: The End of the American Alley
As ADUs are developed along alleys in the next few years, we are presented with an opportunity: to construct ADUs which front the street and transform the service alley into a minor street, or to construct ADUs which only look into the private lot, simply leaving the alley as it is.
The American Alley, Part 2: Origins of the American Alley
Understanding the alley’s past reveals it for what it is today: a hidden resource for making our cities stronger and more prosperous.
Urban Walkability Gains a Foothold in the U.S.
Only time will tell, but a city built around 15-minute travel via nonmotorized transportation is one that can upend the way planners think about neighborhoods and mobility, and may ultimately render cars unnecessary in all aspects of personal transportation.
Here Comes the Neighborhood
All across the country, activists in liberal cities are pushing for zoning reform to allow for more density. Many American cities are booming — Seattle’s population is up 20 percent since 2010 — and to accommodate that growth, they can either build up or out.
Why Walkable Streets are More Economically Productive
What is the value of a street where people can walk safely? Why build streets that are constructed with the needs of people in mind, not just the needs of cars?
To Remember Jane Jacobs, You’ve Got to Get Out and Walk
In 2007, a year after Jacobs died, some of her close friends in Toronto took a crack at creating a fitting homage—a living, breathing, walking, talking memorial called Jane’s Walk.
Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More
Walking good for health, community and economy.
Great Communities Grow at the Intersection of Health and Design
Numerous medical leaders have also shown that Placemaking can play a huge role in promoting better health for all Americans.
Little Town on the Prairie Steps It Up
Albert Lea, Minnesota shows how walking and other healthy habits can rejuvenate a rural community.