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Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?
11:30 am in atlanta, Design & Architecture, urban design, urban planning, walkscore by TreeHugger
Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released its list of America's most walkable cities and I wondered what the walkscore of poor Raquel Nelson's home is, where this accident happened. It is an aston...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When the Paris-based architecture firm DVVD (hyperlink) set out to build a pedestrian bridge, they wanted to please everyone. Keep drivers safe from thrown objects by installing protective mesh around the bridge. Keep pedestrians safe by providing a well-lit passage over a busy road and river, but without caging them in. And so was born the twisting pedestrian bridge in Evry, France, just south of Paris, a remarkable design that's reminiscent of strands of DNA....
