Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Walk and be active at home every day, not on your vacation

Savannah: One of the Top 10 Walking Cities billboard
You can vacation in Savannah and walk while you're there, or you can live within a couple miles of DC's core, or subway stops, or within a 5-7 mile bicycling distance, and exercise every day, without having to devote special time to exercise.

More writing in the Post that appears to be quite simplistic comes in this article in the Health section, "On Vacation? Lose A Little Something," about walking and such when you travel.

If you want to be healthy on a daily basis and keep your weight down, you have to exercise. It isn't enough to just eat more healthfully.

So you have to organize your life so that movement is something you have to do as a matter of course, such as walk about a mile to/from the subway for work, or bicycling as your primary mobility mode, etc.

If you organize your life around driving, walking or bicycling on vacation doesn't mean very much.

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I suppose this is another illustration of the urban principle that I am calling "complete places."

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