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NSW Geography Syllabus 7 -10
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Five Cities show the Future of Walkability

Five Cities show the Future of Walkability | Stage 4 Place and Liveability | Scoop.it

To walk in our cities is more than just a simple act of transport. Walking represents an appropriation of urban space for daily life. It means being an active part of the urban environment by learning, understanding and shaping the city on a personal level. Walking is one of the most democratic and equitable ways of getting around, but it’s also one of the ways most linked to factors outside an individual’s control, like social or physical abilities and the presence of infrastructure to walk comfortably and safely.

These are the factors that define walkability, which refers to how safe, convenient, and efficient it is to walk in an urban environment. 


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Walkability enhances social connectedness and community identity - therefore perceptions of liveability

Catherine Devin's curator insight, April 23, 2015 2:38 AM

On met beaucoup en avant la création de pistes cyclables dans les villes et de parkings à vélo, mais en comparaison, finalement moins  les initiatives pour rendre les déplacements à pied plus fluides, plus agréables, plus sûrs. 

L' Ademe souligne pourtant que la marche à pied fait partie du projet écomobilité (et santé)  et est aussi un des modes de déplacements doux favorisés par les Français en ville.

Le réaménagement de la rue Garibaldi à la Part-Dieu à Lyon travaille en ce sens -  plus de piétons, plus de cyclistes - mais il n'en reste pas moins que la circulation du piéton dans ce quartier d'affaires des années 70' n'est pas toujours aisée et rapide. Encore moins facile  d'accéder  ou quitter La Défense à pied.

Zaiter Ramzy's curator insight, April 23, 2015 5:47 AM

Bien vu les vertus de la marche à pied urbaine pour l'appropriation du territoire par ses habitants, quelques exemples de Helsinky à Hambourg

Catherine Bossis's curator insight, April 30, 2015 5:59 AM

Je ne suis pas Bordelaise, ni au fan club du Maire de Bordeaux, je me déplace beaucoup en France. Ce week-end j'ai marché à Bordeaux et deux choses m'ont sauté aux yeux : 1- il y a des bancs (propres et agréables) partout en centre ville. On peut se reposer très facilement, ce qui facilite grandement la marche surtout des personnes à mobilité réduite (comme mes ados un peu paresseux !). 2- j'ai vu des enfants faire du vélo, ce que je ne vois pas à Toulouse par exemple où cela reste très dangereux de circuler en vélo (ce que je pratique chaque jour).  Dans d'autres collectivités Françaises j'observe un retour en arrière sur la piétonisation et la cyclabilité et c'est bien triste.

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Hamburg's Answer to Climate Change: An Extensive Pedestrian & Bicycle-Oriented Green Network

Hamburg's Answer to Climate Change:  An Extensive Pedestrian & Bicycle-Oriented Green Network | Stage 4 Place and Liveability | Scoop.it
The German city is planning a green network that will cover 40% of the city area, contributing to resilience and allowing biking, swimming and nature watching in the city

The European commercial hub promotes bicycling as the main mode of transportation, and plans to build a network around bikes and pedestrians, linking car-free roads to parks and playgrounds, from the city centre to the suburbs.

Welcome to Hamburg, an environmental pioneer whose planned green network will cover 40% of the city's area. "It will connect parks, recreational areas, playgrounds, gardens and cemeteries through green paths", says Angelika Fritsch, a spokeswoman for the city's department of urban planning and the environment. "Other cities, including London, have green rings, but the green network will be unique in covering an area from the outskirts to the city centre. In 15 to 20 years you'll be able to explore the city exclusively on bike and foot."


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Snøhetta completes phase one of Times Square transformation

Snøhetta completes phase one of Times Square transformation | Stage 4 Place and Liveability | Scoop.it

Architecture firm Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of a major overhaul of New York's Times Square, continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination.

The $55 million reconstruction project is the largest redesign of the square in decades and encompasses the transformation of five public plazas between 42nd and 47th Streets, which will be entirely reconstructed to remove any traces that vehicular traffic once ran through the square along the Broadway...


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ELISA TANGKEARUNG's curator insight, January 11, 2014 9:38 PM

HE said : Don't look at me or your brother & your sister FROM THE "crowd"....TAKE A LOOK them from "THAT CROSS"! where HIS LOVE make EVERYTHING IS DONE!!!..