COMMON SENSE, WALKING SPEEDS & 15 MINUTE CITY LIFESTYLE
I’ve read some posts and narratives in the past year or so that challenge concepts like the 15-minute city for lack of inclusivity concerning variations in walking speed. Walking speeds areContinue Reading
Welcoming Yuliia to Pedestrian Space
We are happy to welcome Yuliia Polozova to Pedestrian Space for her Master’s level internship this year! Yuliia is a master’s student within the EIT Urban Mobility Master School program,Continue Reading
Talking about Urban Mobility in the Classroom
February was ‘Mobility and Transportation’ month in my Conversational English classes for Grades 1-3 at a Polish bilingual school where I currently work. Every month I setContinue Reading
Faith and Environmental Consciousness and Practice
At Pedestrian Space, we are developing a ‘Sustainable Urbanism & Planetary Health’ curriculum. ‘Faith & Religion’ are represented in ‘Humanity’, one of the core pillars of the program,Continue Reading
Arts-infused Sustainable Urbanism Curriculum
Last Autumn, at one of my current roles, as a conversational English teacher for grades 1-3, I piloted a ‘Where I Live’ learning module. We explored theContinue Reading
Inclusion & Project-Based Learning
At Pedestrian Space, we are developing a primary and secondary (K-12) ‘Sustainable Urbanism & Planetary Health’ curriculum. A significant motivator for curriculum development, and my own inspirationContinue Reading
Turning towards ‘Ordinary Cities’
I have what I call a healthy and growing obsession with ‘Ordinary Cities’. These are often the cities that don’t enter popular urbanism discourse. They are notContinue Reading
Life Context for Curriculum Development
I’m really excited about this. It’s also going to take some time. In the past several months, my husband has said to me (on more than oneContinue Reading
Book: Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies
In 2025, I began to not only muse significantly more on the topic of ‘ordinary cities’, but also realize it as a key developing research interest andContinue Reading
Steps towards Walkability
Steps Towards Walkability by Sandy Yang Sandy Yang is a high school senior living in New York City. She was introduced to the issue of walkability byContinue Reading