On Social Marketing and Social Change: Walkable Neighborhoods: It's More Than a Design Problem

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Walkable Neighborhoods: It's More Than a Design Problem

Alex Steffen talks about an experiment of a colleague and his family to live a car-free lifestyle in Seattle. While it was quite easy to identify a 1 mile perimeter 'walkshed' in which most of their daily activities occur, they identified a need for information tools (such as a map for their walkshed that locates area businesses and public facilities of various sorts) that would help guide their walking behavior. [Guess it beats wandering around aimlessly for at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week.]

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14 April 2006 | Permalink

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