Today’s share is a gem from December which has the added feature of identifying over-priced and under-priced walkable neighborhoods in these dynamic, but auto-centrically flawed cities, if you feel like getting out your pro-forma developer pencil. From National Resources Defense Council Staff Blog, Switchboard: Perhaps the single most alarming public health trend in the United States today is the dramatic rise in the number of people who are overweight and obese, bringing serious. We will be sharing CityNerd posts intermittently, when they connect with Strong Towns themes. Posted by SCM Livability, Planning and Urban Design 1. He intends to get back to his real job at some point, but in the meantime he’s having too much fun publishing for a fast-growing audience of 23,000-plus subscribers. Good urban planning is necessary to put walking, cycling and active travel at the heart of how we move around the city.
He took a one-year sabbatical break and found himself producing the YouTube series. Video topics are usually viewer suggested and come out once a week.īehind CityNerd is a Portland, Oregon-based transportation/planning project manager with some video production in his background. Nerd out on videos about induced demand freeway lids, caps, and decks and hunting for walkable neighborhoods. outside Denver: I dont know how this public realm & urban design can be marketed Its a Frankenstein of unwalkable high-transport-cost automobility. I guess my one hesitation is I can't figure out where the grocery store is, which would be kind of a deal breaker.”ĬityNerd, the YouTube channel, intersects with the Strong Towns approach to development and urbanism, particularly on the subjects of walkability, car dependence, and the Suburban Experiment. Photo by woodleywonderworks, Flickr Creative Commons. All communities should have a right to a safe, sustainable, healthy, just, walkable community.
#Unwalkable community design code#
Tell me your zip code and I can tell you how healthy you are. Walkable commercial street leading to a commercial node at five points, check. The Movement to Make Every American Community Walkable. The narrator: “Cute, walkable streets, check. In the countdown, Nashville comes in at number two and has an unenviable walk score of 28, but its East End neighborhood scores 88-a 60 point differential. Most candidates have differentials above 50 points, the narrator explains.Įach gets the classic CityNerd Google Street View tour and the trademark dry humor with a kindly, but snarky, treatment.
Sloan Leo is a genius designer and shares. Its most walkable neighborhood is the Paseo, with an 88. Community design is an approach to solving problems that involves all the people who the problem affects from the very beginning stage of problem-finding. There aren’t many lower on the 0–100 scale. The study focuses on approximately 83 acres of the. This CityNerd video starts with Oklahoma City, which has a Walk Score of 34. Stantec will conduct an economic and urban design study of Tract 5, which comprises the land around and including the Smart Financial Centre. These cities have poor overall walkability, but still feature some neighborhoods where one might consider going car-free-the diamonds in the rough, so to speak. You’ll find spots like my hometown of Anchorage, Alaska Columbus, Ohio Louisville, Kentucky Orlando, Florida and Austin, Texas.
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