From The Walkable City by Jeff Speck

The modern world is full of experts who are paid to ignore criteria beyond their professions.

The school and parks departments will push for fewer, larger facilities, since these are easier to maintain—and show off. The public works department will insist that new neighbourhoods be designed principally around snow and trash removal. The department of transportation will build new roads to ease traffic generated by the very sprawl that they cause. Each of these approaches may seem correct in a vacuum, but is wrong in a city…

Three issues—wealth, health, and sustainability—are the three principal arguments for making our cities more walkable.

The pedestrian network, #walkability, isn’t about places where you can walk, it’s a fully integrated seamless urban mobility system. #WalkableCity pic.twitter.com/DrOL62a9UK

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) July 29, 2019

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