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Jane’s Walk
On the first weekend of May every year, Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours. We walk our cities to honor and activate
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National Walking Case Studies
A new compendium of National Walking Case Studies was launched today in Vienna, Austria at the meeting of the Transport, Health, and Environment pan-European Programme (THE PEP). The post National Walking Case Studies appeared first on Walk21.
I love my walkable neighbourhood. Everyone should get the chance to live in one.
By Molly Magid, Communications and Campaigns Specialist for Living Streets Aotearoa It’s been about a year since my partner and I moved into our new house in the suburb of Richmond in Christchurch. This is the first house we own, and we’ve been really ...
Vikas Mehta, “Walkable Streets: Pedestrian Behavior, Perceptions and Attitudes”
Yes, another paper about walkability: I’m learning about this topic, but slowly. Mehta begins by noting that walking “is largely influenced by cultural factors, by individual circumstances, preferences and characteristics, and by environmental factors” (217). He suggests that “urban designers are concerned with the environmental qualities that make for better places to walk—not only as … Continue reading Vikas Mehta, “Walkable Streets: Pedestrian Behavior, Perceptions and Attitudes” →
Filipe Moura, Paulo Cambra, and Alexandre B. Gonçalves, “Measuring Walkability for Distinct Pedestrian Groups with a Participatory Assessment Method: A Case Study in Lisbon”
The last article I read, Michael Southworth’s “Designing the Walkable City,” defined walkability and explained why it is both important and, for the most part, absent from contemporary North American cities; in this article, the three co-authors suggest a way of measuring walkability. “We believe that beyond adequate pedestrian accessibility indicators, attractiveness indicators are key … Continue reading Filipe Moura, Paulo Cambra, and Alexandre B. Gonçalves, “Measuring Walkability for Distinct Pedestrian Groups with a Participatory Assessment Method: A Case Study in Lisbon” →