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The term "walkability" was primarily invented in the 1960s due to Jane Jacobs' revolution in urban studies. In recent years, walkability has become popular because of its health, economic, and environmental benefits. [2] It is an essential concept of sustainable urban design. [3]
A walking city or walkable city is a type of city that is created to avoid internal transportation, and therefore be small enough that a person can use walking to navigate the city. It is characterized by narrow, often winding streets . [ 1 ]
A walking audit is an assessment of the walkability or pedestrian access of an external environment. Walking audits are often undertaken in street environments to consider and promote the needs of pedestrians as a form of transport.
I reformatted the ways to improve walkability portion of the article and added additional information to the history section (does need citation as I rephrased them from their parent wiki pages). If anyone is interested there is a big development on R/fuckcars that I believe would add a perspective on how walkability is seen on the internet and ...
Racewalkers at the World Cup Trials in 1987. The word walk is descended from the Old English wealcan 'to roll'. In humans and other bipeds, walking is generally distinguished from running in that only one foot at a time leaves contact with the ground and there is a period of double-support.
Walk Score was founded in July 2007 by Mike Mathieu [3] [4] and aided by Matt Lerner, Jesse Kocher, and Josh Herst, formerly of Madrona Venture Group.. In August 2010, the company launched Transit Score to help users understand the proximity of public transport to an address.
Index.hu is a Hungarian news website covering both Hungarian and international news. In 2018, it was the most visited Hungarian website with an average of 1.5 million daily readers. [1]
The Hungarian Electronic Library (Hungarian: Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár) is one of the most significant text-archives of the Hungarian Web space [1] showcasing a variety of primary and secondary sources. [2] Contains thousands of full-text works in the humanities and social sciences. [1]