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Sex, Neuroscience, and Walkable Urbanism
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 – 7:00 PM
How are cities across North America making the most efficient use of their
limited transportation resources. How are they achieving larger job creation, resilience, public health, equity and human happiness goals?
Jeff Tumlin has the answers.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013, 7 pm
Location: SFU Segal Building (500 Granville Street), Room 1200-1500. [NOTE: NOT IN SFU HARBOUR CENTRE.]
Admission: Free, but seating is limited, so we require reservations. Register
Speaker
Jeffrey Tumlin is singlehandedly changing the way America thinks about transportation. Instead of measuring success by how many freeways a city has, Tumlin is showing that transportation choices (including design for bikes and pedestrians) can improve public health, happiness, and social vitality—and save city budgets. He is the author of Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities (Wiley, February 2012).
Sponsors
SFU Continuing Studies (City Program)
Jeff is a tremendously evocative speaker. In one short lecture he can deliver the full parameters of the importance of walkability in urban design and what we need to do to get there. Anyone that thinks this through for communities in the middle east has my respect!
I highly recommend hearing him!