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“Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us.”
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
“The General Theory of Walkability explains how, to be favored, a walk has to satisfy four main conditions: it must be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting.”
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
“Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, sees things in a much simpler light: “God made us walking animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.”38 That thought is beautiful, perfectly obvious,”
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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