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Show Notes
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?
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