How Encouraging People to Walk Can Help Strengthen Our Cities

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Walking is the simplest, most cost-efficient way to improve a city's economic and environmental viability. Walkable City author Jeff Speck said it best in his recent TEDCity2.0 talk: "Sustainability—which includes both health and wealth—may not be a function of our ecological footprint, but the two are deeply interrelated. If we pollute so much because we are throwing away our time, money, and lives on the highway, then both problems would seem to share a single solution, and that solution is to make our cities more walkable."

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How Encouraging People to Walk Can Help Strengthen Our Cities