India’s Supreme Court has declared the right to walk on safe, demarcated footpaths a fundamental right, arguing that streets must prioritize pedestrians over motor vehicles and urging the government to create a legal framework to protect that right.
#urbanism #urbanplanning #PedestrianRights #SupremeCourtIndia #Walkability
Transform Transport presents a methodology for #pedestrian #routing tailored to distinct user groups, derived from clustering survey respondents by their preferences among 33 #walkability indicators. The result is an #OSM- and indicator-based routing approach that generates optimal walking routes personalised to health-conscious, safety-conscious, and other user groups.
Walkable neighborhoods are expensive because we made them rare. Build more walkable neighborhoods.
The walkability premium is a scarcity premium. In most of California, you can't legally build a mixed-use neighborhood even if you wanted to.
Zoning prohibits it. Setbacks prevent it. Parking minimums destroy it.
Sidewalks in our city are way too narrow, and yet restaurants stick a few small tables on them anyway. It makes it hard to walk, push a stroller, or heaven forbid navigate with a wheelchair.
IMO, the lane for car traffic should be reduced to one lane, since we have a one-way streets grid system anyway, to allow the expansion of bike lanes, sidewalks, bus stops, and on street parking. Ideally, streetcars too.
People centered.
Link: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2026/06/16/grand-boulevards-promoted-affordable-housing-transit
"Shifting our perspective from vehicular circulation to incremental habitation completely changes the math of a fractured grid. We don't need a fully continuous alley to unlock value; every fraction of a lot recovered is a win...a neighborhood can bypass a “holdout” problem by pairing internal pockets of reclaimed alley space with fence-line pedestrian passages. Cities across the US already have a history of this infrastructure."
Link: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2026/06/15/alleys-and-reurbanization-repairing-broken-urban-form
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https://www.strongtowns.org/podcasts
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#Community #Resilience #Sustainability #Activism #Localization #DeGrowth #FoodSecurity #Urbanism #Walkability #Bike #Transit #Podcast
It says a lot about how I view the suburbs that yesterday and today I extensively stocked up on stuff I will need through Sunday like I'm going hours out of town so that I don't have to leave the house I'm sitting this weekend because there's nowhere to go without a car even though I will only be a 20 minute drive from my apartment. No sidewalks, barely any accessible stores on foot. I refuse to pay for a Lyft/Uber/cab.
I’m in Irvine for a graduation, reminded that it’s possible for a city to actually have a negative walkability score 😬 🚗 🚘 🚙
I watched this video by Evan Edinger last night how why walking to the world cup final is illegal. First of all, I'm impressed by what the UK did for the area that had the Olympics as I haven't seen quick improvement where I live anytime since. Could we have more of that? "Improvement" around here seems to mean more fast food restaurants.
I thought of his video when the children walking to school woke me up. Im hoping I can sleep through that again soon.
Bring it on!
"What would happen if authorities banned on-street parking? Given the oversupply of parking, most drivers would be able to park in off-street areas such as shopping centres, offices and parking lots. These would need better sharing arrangements.
Then, with road space freed up, it would be possible to make many streets much more pleasant – and include safe two-way paths for riders."
#urban #UrbanDesign #walkability
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-ve-come-up-with-a-solution-for-our-parking-woes-not-everyone-will-like-it-20260605-p6048s.html
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