A pedestrian perspective.
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CALTHORPE RECOINS
From an interview with Peter Calthorpe in Metropolis Magazine:
MCP: On your website you said you wanted to retire the term “transit oriented development.” A term you coined. Why do you want to retire it?
PC: The reality is that people get almost too focused on transit. There’s a symbiotic relationship between it and walkable destinations. You can’t have good transit if you can’t walk when you arrive. So pedestrian-oriented development is really at the heart and soul of great cities. Every city that you love is a city that you want to walk in.
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THE ODDS
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People who walk to work are less likely to have high blood pressure and 40 percent less likely to develop diabetes. More at Walk your way to health.
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THE LONDON WALKING BOOM
The Economist explains why the capital is bucking the national trend:
Between 2001 and 2011 the number of trips made daily on foot in London increased by 12%. Nearly a third of the Londoners sampled made a continuous walk of 30 minutes once a week between 2010 and 2011 to get from place to place, rather than for exercise. Each day 6.2m walks are made across the city.
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