Reading Insights from the Week
2025-01-10
Rounding off the week, sharing some of the diverse mix of reading I completed the past couple of days. 📰 TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNITY & THE COMMON GOOD IContinue Reading
Transdisciplinary Roots of the Work
2025-01-05
When I say that I like and value working in a multidisciplinary way (in my own work and with that characteristic in collaborations), I am not sayingContinue Reading
Walkability, Urban Access & Rural Village Life
2024-12-22
14 years ago my husband and I were settling into a very small Bavarian village (approximately 5000 inhabitants) in Germany. I didn’t know the term ‘Walkability’ backContinue Reading
An ‘Ecology of Proximity’
2024-12-08
I am busy with my nose in stacks and stacks of books and papers this month My literature review for my dissertation papers spanned years and includesContinue Reading
15-minute City Mental Mapping Reflection
2024-11-03
☕ 🗺 Sunday Morning ’15-minute city’ mapmaking reflection In Spring 2020, when I first heard about the 15-minute city concept, my family and I were living inContinue Reading
Submissions open: ‘Walkability & Planetary Health’ with UVM Press
2024-10-23
Here at Pedestrian Space we are honored to be partnering with the University of Vermont Press (UVM Press)for a contributed volume on ‚Walkability and Planetary Health’. WeContinue Reading
Photographing Walkability
2024-10-02
I’ve been photographing urbanism and city life for a couple of decades now. But it is really only in the past few years that I have begunContinue Reading
Walkability A-ha Moments
2024-09-24
I work with issues of urbanism academically but my interest in walkability, at root, is about lived experience and the understanding that a truly walkable community and lifestyleContinue Reading
15-Minute City Reflection: From Lived Experience to Research
2024-09-16
Photographing built environment and city spaces was my ‘hook’ into urbanism 24 years ago when I moved to a bustling Pacific Northwestern city. It would be myContinue Reading
Military Posts & Walkability
2024-08-29
It’s sort of humourous to me as well as thrilling and mildly frustrating (and maybe even a bit normal?) that I’m knee deep in a year andContinue Reading