Walkable city design

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Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment. Effectively understanding and measuring the complex ecology of walkability has proven challenging for many organizations and governments, given the various levels of policy-making and implementation involved. In the past, Western and Eurocentric standards have permeated measurement attempts and have included data collection practices that are too complicated to have utility in many parts of…

Week 2: Walkability: Good density and mixed use blocks with retail at the sidewalk and streets designed to accommodate more than just automobiles helps to create a healthy urban environment in which the pedestrian is comfortable. These elements were once common in cities but, like streetcars, have been abandoned in the name of car-centric "progress." It's past time to rethink these errors. Villa Architecture, Urban Design Diagram, Urban Design Graphics, Urban Analysis, Urban Design Concept, New Urbanism, Urban Design Plan, Desain Lanskap, Concept Diagram

Week 2: Walkability: Good density and mixed use blocks with retail at the sidewalk and streets designed to accommodate more than just automobiles helps to create a healthy urban environment in which the pedestrian is comfortable. These elements were once common in cities but, like streetcars, have been abandoned in the name of car-centric "progress." It's past time to rethink these errors.

If people don't feel safe to walk why they don't drive instead? So in order to pursue a walkable city, people need to feel safe when they are walking. Like the road diet, those methods that can slow down vehicles can make pedestrians feel safer. And also Jane Jacobs idea of eyes on the street is helpful as well. Nature, Suzhou River, Traffic Calming, Traditional Neighborhood Development, Walkable Cities, Jane Jacobs, Urban Spaces Design, Urban Ideas, Streetscape Design

If people don't feel safe to walk why they don't drive instead? So in order to pursue a walkable city, people need to feel safe when they are walking. Like the road diet, those methods that can slow down vehicles can make pedestrians feel safer. And also Jane Jacobs idea of eyes on the street is helpful as well.

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Thirty years ago everyone in China rode bicycles; today it's all cars. Thirty years ago Western cities were clogged with cars, but today city planners would prefer it if everyone were on bicycles. This dichotomy has led to two vastly different ways to solve a common urban problem. China is

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