From 15-minute city to 5-minute neighborhood realities
I wrote the below in Örebro on May 27, 2020. I have been interested in issues of walkability for decades now but haven’t consistently lived in walkableContinue Reading
Great Public Toilet in Park Example
Access to clean and safe public toilets is a common good. It’s also a critical public health issue and links to how an urban environment also supportsContinue Reading
Welcoming Savannah to Pedestrian Space
It was great to meet Savannah Siekierski live and in person at the Kongres Nowej Mobilności | New Mobility Congress this week. Savannah wrote me earlier thisContinue Reading
Fall in Love with Walking – and working towards change
‘Fall in Love with Walking’ is one of the mantras I developed at Pedestrian Space. Here I am, photographed just a couple of days ago, sporting aContinue Reading
Urban Heat & Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Solutionary Action
Urban heat is a severe and intensifying issue in cities worldwide. Many of the solutions we need are not super innovative, amazing new ideas. We need someContinue Reading
‘Walkability: Through the Lens’ Featured
Very exciting to see Brinksway Cinema featuring ‘Walking: Through the Lens’ at their CLIMATE CUTS FILM EVENT: Sustainable Travel To Save The World? Over the past yearContinue Reading
Elements of Public Transit
Take a look at public transit stops in your town or city. What elements are there that help improve the commuter experience? Which elements are absent INFOContinue Reading
15-Minute City & Inclusivity
I’m deep in my fieldwork notes as I work on my dissertation papers, and was transported this morning to when I first met Mateusz Majkut, Warsaw-based politicianContinue Reading
CITY ACCESS: Youth
How accessible is your city to youth? Are they often freely walking around and comfortably using diverse public spaces (as well as various establishments and institutions) throughoutContinue Reading
Book: Rewriting Exurbia
Today I finished the book ‘Rewriting Exurbia: New people in aging sprawl’ by Lawrence Davis (ListLab Publisher). I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in and/orContinue Reading