Urban design that fully and properly takes account of the needs of walkers will make cities much more attractive places to live and work. Churchill famously said that ‘We shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.’2 Similarly, we first shape our cities, and then our cities shape us. To extend the metaphor, our cities walk us, for the shape of the cities we create determines the shape of our urban walking, for better or worse. There are great potential walking futures in cities for us all. What
