This document discusses the characteristics and benefits of walkable cities. It defines a walkable city as one where residents can access destinations using public transit or by walking. The key features of walkable communities include having destinations within walking or biking distance, sidewalks and crossings that make walking safe, and a mix of businesses and homes. Benefits include more active and healthier residents, transportation choices, and a safer environment for walking and biking. Specific strategies to create walkable cities include redevelopment agencies, developing a multifunctional downtown, making the downtown more pedestrian-friendly, preserving historical structures, waterfront development, office development, and improving mass transportation and alternative transit options like walking and biking.
2. Why are we driving everywhere instead of
walking???
3. What is Walkable city
Where residents may transport by public transit and on foot to
navigate the city to get to destinations;
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Source: Elizabeth Monterrosa Energy Law Spring 2009
Walkable city create Walkable
community..,
Walkable communities are neigbourhoods with features that
make it easy for you to incorporate walking and other active
transportation into your daily routine.
Source: healty U www.healtyalberta.com Government of Alberta
4. Features of walkable communies include
Destination within walking or biking distance
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Sidewalk, speed controls, well linked trails and street crossings
that make walking safe and accessible for everyone
A mix of bussinesses and homes (mix-use neighbourhoods)
Attractive, interesting places to walk
Source: healty U www.healtyalberta.com Government of Alberta
5. Characteristic of a walkable community..,
Coherence
A clear, understandable and organized sidewalk, street and land-use system
consistent with the scale and function of the surrounding urban context.
Continuity
A pattern of design and usage that unifies the pedestrian system.
Equilibrium
A balance among transportation modes that will accommodate and encourage
pedestrian participation.
Safety
Pedestrian protection from automobiles and bicycles.
Comfort
Secure and negotiable paving materials for sidewalks and crosswalks.
Source: Walk Boston, A Pedestrian Perspective on the Central Artery Project in Downtown Boston: A Report by the Pedestrian
Issues Task Force (Boston, MA, 1994).
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Sociability
A sense of hospitality and suitability for individual and community interactions.
Accessibility
The opportunity for all individuals to utilize the pedestrian environment as
fully as possible.
Efficiency
Simplicity and cost-effectiveness in design and function. Minimum delay along
a walking route.
Attractiveness.
Clean, efficient and well-maintained surroundings, with adjacent storefronts
and activities that provide sidewalk interest.
Source: Walk Boston, A Pedestrian Perspective on the Central Artery Project in Downtown Boston: A Report by the Pedestrian
Issues Task Force (Boston, MA, 1994).
7. Walkable city benefits are
More Active and Healthier People
People- and Family-Oriented Community Development
Transportation Choices
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Independent Mobility for Children
Accessibility for All
Lower Income Mobility
Source: Adapted from Campaign to Make America Walkable, A Vision of a Walkable Community (Washington, DC, 1997).
A safer environtment for walking and bicycling
More opportunities to exercise for everyone, no matter their age, income,
gender and ability level
Better access to destinations you need in day to day life
Source: healty U www.healtyalberta.com Government of Alberta
8. Specific Strategies to Re-create the
Walkable City
Redevelopment Agency
A Multifunctional Downtown
Pedestrian-Friendly Downtown
Historical Structures or Memorials that Mark the Unique Culture of
the Urban Area
Waterfront Development
Office Development
Mass Transportation Enhancement
Alternative Human Powered Transit
Source: Elizabeth Monterrosa Energy Law Spring 2009
9. Establishing a
Redevelopment Agency
To Oversee
The implementation of re-zoning and urban redevelopment;
Enacted by a city council can create a more accountable, centralized,
and efficient redevelopment process.
A Multifunctional Downtown
A wide variety of functions and activities shoulld occupy downtown, including
housing, work, shopping, government, tourist attractions and culture.
10. Pedestrian-Friendly Downtown
By providing sufficiently wide sidewalks and/or pedestrian zones and markets closed
off from automobiles.
Additional: public art, active storefronts, attractive landscaping, decorative benches,
cafes and outdoor tables, sidewalk merchandise displays and vendors and signs.
Source : www.revitalizingdandenong.com Source : Elizabeth Monterrosa
Energy Law Spring 2009
11. Historical Structures or Memorials that Mark
the Unique Culture of the Urban Area
Preservation of historical structures and the
erection of historical memorials help establish the
city’s unique identity, luring tourists and locals
downtown for it’s unique assets.
Source : Elizabeth Monterrosa
Energy Law Spring 2009
12. Waterfront Development
Provides a visual and physical attraction to the waterfront, generally located
adjacent to urban downtowns.
Source: Elizabeth Monterrosa Energy Law Spring 2009
Office Development
Attracts economic development, which feeds the recreation of the walkable city as
office personel and traveling business persons become
patrons of downtown businesses, including
hotels, restaurants, shops and stores.
13. Mass Transportation Enhancement
Offering rapid mass transit, including subways, trams, shuttles and buses, creates a
less automobile-dependent urban core, decreasing energy consumption and
attracting patrons who can rely of dependable mass transit systems for
transportation.
Source : www.revitalizingdandenong.com
Source : Elizabeth Monterrosa Energy Law Spring 2009
14. Alternative Human Powered Transit
Foot and bicycle transportation are increasingly encouraged by creating wider
sidewalks and bike lanes in urban cores.
Source : Elizabeth Monterrosa Energy Law Spring 2009 Source : Citraland Makassar Gallery
