walkability
Christopher B. Leinberger asks if suburbia is becomming the next slum »
The subprime-mortgage crisis along with people starting families later with fewer kids means that people are moving to urban, walkable neighbourhoods or at least desire to.
tags: subprime-mortgage crisis, suburbs, walkability
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Feb. 21st, 2008
Christopher Leinberger describes drivable suburbanism and its alternative, walkable urbanism »
He outlines ways to achieve this, suggesting that the government stop subsidizing the de facto policy and let the market give rise to walkability.
tags: Christopher Leinberger, drivable suburbanism, urban planning, walkability, walkable urbanism
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Feb. 10th, 2008
David Brewster discusses walkability and the Walk Score »
The first framing device to make more people embrace the joys of tighter living quarters is carbon footprint, scaring people out of their subdivisions with an ominous rumble of the extinction of the earth if we don't start abandoning our cars and do more walking. The second framing notion is "walkability." A compact, walkable neighborhood sounds sociable, old-fashioned, village-like. Not density, but desirability.
Walkability has become the new buzzword in urban planning »
"It's hard to argue with benefits that range from health, to air quality, to quality of life, to economic value, to safety."
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