Sentences with phrase «more walkable cities»

As futurist Alex Steffen has persuasively argued, building denser, more walkable cities is one of the premier ways we can cut back our carbon footprint.

It also delivers other environmental benefits such as creating a greener and more walkable city.

Not exact matches

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

Home to such celebrity chefs as Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, and Nobu Matsuhisa, to name a few, Beverly Hills is one of the most renowned culinary destinations in the world with global cuisine from France, Spain, Italy, India, Vietnam, Austria, and Venezuela, and more — all within the City's walkable 5.5 square miles.

Making the city more walkable and accessible to cyclists can help make alternatives to cars and other carbon - dioxide emitting vehicles more appealing, and slow down the rate at which our climate is changing.»

From CDPHP Cycle, to traffic - calming projects that have made major thoroughfares more bikeable and walkable, to a police force that appears to now better understand the communities it is tasked with protecting — Albany feels more like the progressive city its political representatives always claimed it was.

This would help curtail suburban sprawl and the associated auto miles traveled while also making our cities more compact and walkable.

YOU»RE CURRENTLY READING: My bedside table is mostly aspirational, and I have far more books on it than I'm actually engaged with, but the two I am currently reading are Walkable City by Jeff Speck and Granta magazine's India issue of stories.

Great for solo travellers, couples, and groups of all ages the city is quite walkable and has a great area of the town known as the Old Town, a beautiful canal that you can take a boat ride down, a huge market and so much more.

Nevertheless more choice is always good and the Hotel Indigo London — Aldgate will be within convenient reach of both of London's financial districts (Canary Wharf and The City) and the Tower of London, the Thames and the Southbank will all be walkable.

You can't take more than a few steps in this immensely walkable City Different without stumbling upon one of its more than 250 art museums or galleries.

«A city is inherently more transit oriented and walkable than a suburb,» Aggarwala said.

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You might expect more from a city that has been ranked the nation's most walkable and bike - friendly city, but then again, it's not like this is Copenhagen.

The city has a plan to redesign and grow its bus network to make it more frequent, walkable, and direct.

Canning credits the Dutch with the effort to turn away from car - centric culture in the 1970s to re-embrace a more walkable, bikeable standard for cities and include slow - moving but hard - working cargo bikes.

82 % agree Canada should introduce laws to promote denser, walkable cities that would make public transit more practical and reduce traffic congestion.

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So in parallel to all the other changes that are needed to make our society greener (such as making cities more walkable, more bikable, using New Urbanism principles for development, greatly improving public transportation so we can catch up to Hong Kong, etc), we also need to improve the car.

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And people want more interesting walkable destinations,» said Cortright, who is also a senior policy advisor for CEOs for Cities, a national organization of urban leaders.

The move helped make the city more walkable.

«They seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.

Walk / Live St. Louis 2012, another HCSI project, brought together community leaders, nonprofit organizations, public entities and industry stakeholders, such as SLAR, to promote a more walkable, bikeable and safe city.

«But coming out of the recession there's been so much more awareness of the power of cities to attract people, the interest in walkable environments, and the desire to not have a car.»

Pat Kaplan: With Portland's urban growth boundary, we have always driven people to the center of the city, but it was about four years ago that I saw the properties that were close to public transportation and in walkable communities begin to appreciate much more rapidly than other properties.

«They [millennials] seem more willing than other cohorts to trade space for access to transit and a walkable, mixed - use lifestyle,» says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Housing in Washington, D.C. «It doesn't necessarily mean they're all saying they want to live in downtown central cities.