Highlights
- Invest in walkability: Portland as a great example
- Has fundamentally changed how Portlanders live
- Portlanders drive 20% less than the average American, they are saving 3% of their GDP, and are able to spend that on recreation
- Educated, young people are moving there in droves; it's a place people want to be because it offers a quality of life that people want
- 2004: Urban Sprawl and Public Health
- The suburbs are killing us and the cities can save us
- Obesity, diabetes, etc.
- Urban/Suburban lifestyle relates to diet, but it seems to correlate even more with inactivity
- The American health care crisis is really an urban design crisis, with walkability at the heart of the cure
- The correlation between sustainability of communities and quality of life
- Does "being sustainable" make our quality of life better? No. The things that make us sustainable make our lives better. That thing is living in a walkable community
- How to get people to walk? Requirements:
- A reason to walk (balance of uses)
- A safe walk (reality and perception)
- A comfortable walk (space and orientation)
- An interesting walk (signs of humanity)
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