Walkable city design

A bus-rapid transit success story.

Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment. Effectively understanding and measuring the complex ecology of walkability has proven challenging for many organizations and governments, given the various levels of policy-making and implementation involved. In the past, Western and Eurocentric standards have permeated measurement attempts and have included

Everybody hates being stuck in congestion. For decades the default solution has been: Make the roads wider. Cities across the country have been happy to comply. But they’re wrong. We look at …

The Philips Center for Health and Well-being recently created this infographic looking into what makes a livable and lovable city. At its heart are three key ingredients—resilience, inclusiveness, …

Urbanismo

A Before-and-After Guide to Safer Streets - CityLab

Week 2: Walkability: Good density and mixed use blocks with retail at the sidewalk and streets designed to accommodate more than just automobiles helps to create a healthy urban environment in which the pedestrian is comfortable. These elements were once common in cities but, like streetcars, have been abandoned in the name of car-centric "progress." It's past time to rethink these errors.

Design for walkability is human- and environment-centric with numerous benefits that make it a popular trend in urban planning.

The Spanish city is remaking urban neighbourhoods by limiting through traffic in superblocks that give priority to pedestrians and street activities, not cars.

MVRDV has presented plans to redevelop a former US army barracks in the german city of mannheim.