WALKABLE COMMUNITIES
We met Dan Burden --an internationally recognized authority on bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs, livability, sustainability and Smart Growth -- nearly a decade ago when the Congress for New Urbanism was in town.
He ordered paella at the famed Versailles Cuban Restaurant on Calle Ocho. While Arroz con Pollo or Ropa Vieja would have been much wiser calls....and we waited an hour for the kitchen to make unappealing fishy-smelling paella, we didn't hold his lack of culinary insights against him.
We did become converts of Dan's vision of communities where people can walk, bicycle and move about in wheelchairs safely between where they live, work and play.
Dan's health improved when he starting walking more we know he's onto a cure for what ails us as a car addicted people.
http://walkable.org/
We will spend the next several days sharing our favorite websites, blogs & links that lead to great information on urbanism, planning, travel, sustainability, universal design, wheelchair access and travel. Our listings are in no particular order.
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