Definition & Betydning | engelsk ord WALKABILITY

Definitioner af WALKABILITY

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• Although Mississauga was initially a car-centric city, significant strides have been made to improve walkability and add cycling lanes, with most major arteries having bi-directional bike lanes.
• While the existence of cities can only persist if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, poorly planned agglomerations may also lead to negative externalities like traffic congestion (lack of walkability and public transport) or pollution (lack of environmental protection laws).
• In 2003 Keiji Asakura of SLA Studio Land presented the Museum District Walk Project, a project to expand walkability in the area.
• In addition, it calls for the redesign of certain arterial roads in the neighborhood such as Twinbrook Parkway and Parklawn Drive as well as connecting dead-end streets to create a grid, aiding walkability.
• Numerous unique street cafes, evening dining options and a wine bar have popped up alongside small businesses in creative fields which value the suburb's combined ease of access, walkability and village feel.
• Collaborating with architectural firms RKTL and Looney Ricks Kiss, Turley created Harbor Town, emphasizing density, walkability, and community interaction.
• Coving has been cited as having several disadvantages: greater set-back from the street, larger lots, reduced usability for mixed application, decreased walkability, decreased street and pedestrian connectivity of a tract to its surroundings, increased suburban sprawl, leaving little or no public open space, and allowing more soil runoff and less communal open space than alternate development types such as new urbanism.
• These multipliers can increase walkability, which fosters social interaction and community togetherness.
• New Urbanists prioritize interconnectedness of the neighborhood through well-defined streets that generate walkability.
• Locations that exhibit greater walkability have more crosswalks, four-way intersections and limited dead-ends.
• " Urban thinker Richard Florida has featured his work on spatial inequity and walkability, stating that it "reminds us that not all urbanites have the same kind of access to walkable streets and neighborhoods.
• These measures were aimed at increasing safety, traffic flow, and cost-effectiveness, while also having the effect of reducing car dependency, increasing walkability, cycleability, and general livability.
• This phenomenon uses underutilized lots, parking lots, greyfield lots, densification of land use especially in regard to residential density, and rezoning to encourage walkability.

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