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Walkable in sentence

29 examples of Walkable in a sentence

And what I work for, and to do, is to make our cities more walkable.
So on the one hand, a city saves money for its residents by being more walkable and more bikeable, but on the other hand, it also is the cool kind of city that people want to be in these days.
Do you live in a more walkable city or do you live in a less walkable city, or where in your city do you live?
If you lived in a more walkable neighborhood, you were 35 percent likely to be overweight.
If you lived in a less walkable neighborhood, you were 60 percent likely to be overweight.
All of these innovations together contribute a fraction of what we contribute by living in a walkable neighborhood three blocks from a metro in the heart of a city.
We've changed all our light bulbs to energy-savers, and you should do the same thing, but changing all your light bulbs to energy-savers saves as much energy in a year as moving to a walkable city does in a week.
And it's very interesting to see that the highest-ranking American city, Honolulu, number 28, is followed by kind of the usual suspects of Seattle and Boston and all walkable cities.
I would argue the same thing that makes you more sustainble is what gives you a higher quality of life, and that's living in a walkable neighborhood.
But particularly here in America, we are polluting so much because we're throwing away our time and our money and our lives on the highway, then these two problems would seem to share the same solution, which is to make our cities more walkable.
So if you design a city with the blind in mind, you'll have a rich, walkable network of sidewalks with a dense array of options and choices all available at the street level.
So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city.
What is the walkable city?
And I'd like to talk about why we need the walkable city, and I'd like to talk about how to do the walkable city.
And all a plan like this guarantees is that you will not have a walkable city, because nothing is located near anything else.
The alternative, of course, is our most walkable city, and I like to say, you know, this is a Rothko, and this is a Seurat.
And we contrast that to the other way, an invention that happened after the Second World War, suburban sprawl, clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable, because so few of the streets connect, that those streets that do connect become overburdened, and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.
The main message here is: if you want to have a walkable city, you can't start with the sprawl model.
So when we look at a downtown area, at a place that has a hope of being walkable, and mostly that's our downtowns in America's cities and towns and villages, we look at them and say we want the proper balance of uses.
The other part of this part, the useful city part, is transit, and you can have a perfectly walkable neighborhood without it.
But perfectly walkable cities require transit, because if you don't have access to the whole city as a pedestrian, then you get a car, and if you get a car, the city begins to reshape itself around your needs, and the streets get wider and the parking lots get bigger and you no longer have a walkable city.
And there are so many moving parts that add up to a walkable city.
This is Portland, Oregon, famously 200-foot blocks, famously walkable.
Portland, Oregon, famously walkable, instituted its "Skinny Streets" program in its residential neighborhood.
This is Grand Rapids, a very walkable city, but nobody walks on this street that connects the two best hotels together, because if on the left, you have an exposed parking deck, and on the right, you have a conference facility that was apparently designed in admiration for that parking deck, then you don't attract that many people.
The other one was dominated by, not everybody moving to the city, but just compact development, what we used to think of as streetcar suburbs, walkable neighborhoods, low-rise, but integrated, mixed-used environments.
You take the least desirable land, the strip, you add where there's space, transit and then you infill mixed-use development, you satisfy new housing demands and you make the existing neighborhoods all around it more complex, more interesting, more walkable.
Now, during the boom, there were several really dramatic redevelopment projects where the original building was scraped to the ground and then the whole site was rebuilt at significantly greater density, a sort of compact, walkable urban neighborhoods.
It's now 22 walkable urban blocks with public streets, two public parks, eight bus lines and a range of housing types, and so it's really given Lakewood, Colorado the downtown that this particular suburb never had.