The Power of Walkable Cities

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

203: Walkability has some clear climate benefits: lower carbon footprints, resource sharing, and decreased reliance on cars for transportation. We're exploring all those, and also discussing some major social sustainability aspects to walkable cities, yielding healthier, happier communities. Today's episode is a deep dive through research on both the climate and community values around mixed-use developments. All the resources mentioned today: Project Drawdown: Walkable Cities TEDTalk: Jeff Speck: The walkable city TEDTalk: Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work Active Community Environments and Health: The Relationship of Walkable and Safe Communities to Individual Health by Doyle et al. (Journal of the American Planning Association, 2006) Episode 136: What is Social Sustainability? Thanks to our sponsor! TryBite.com/ECOCHIC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.4	Today's episode, we're talking about walkable cities. And I'm excited for this episode because
1:13.0	it is pretty research-based. There's a lot of rabbit holes that you yourself can go on afterwards,
1:18.4	and there will be so many links in the show notes for any of the little tidbits that we talk about
1:23.2	today. So I feel like it should be fun from a listener's perspective because we're doing a high
1:28.7	level overview of walkable cities and then peering a little bit into the nooks and crannies.
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