New Course from America Walks- Making Streets for Everyone- Workshop series $400

Information:
What is Walkability? It is a measure of the friendliness of an area to walking. It has health, environmental and economic benefits. Factors that positively influence walkability include footpaths, sidewalks, pedestrian rights-of-way. Other influences are traffic and road conditions, land-use, accessibility to buildings, safety, lighting at night. Anything that improves the conditions to walking. Walkability is becoming an important concept in urban planning and designing communities. Walkable communities are equitable and provide health benefits.
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 *Three people who have influenced me regarding Walkable Cities at the time I was doing the America Walks College in 2017:

​Dan Burden

Mark Fenton

​Jeff Speck

​Walk Jobs Resource:

Trails Skills Project Job Board 

CROSSWALK SIGNALS WITH SOME FLAIR

​Berlin's Ampelmannchen 'little traffic men' is one of many quirky walking signals from around the world 3-8-2017 news.com.au

​Mary Poppins Pedestrian Crossing Lights

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​Articles:

Garnette Cadogan on the Power and Privilege of Walking by Sara King-Abadi 5/9/2018
​Garnette Cadogan , "Walking While Black" (Blog #88) by Breavman99
It is Solved by Walking Essay in High Country News by Antonia Malchik 5/13/2019
​50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets by Adele Peters 8/24/16
Seeing Your Community With New Eyes Through a "Walking Audit" by Daniel Herriges  5/2/2019 Strong Towns
Study Finds That People Overestimate Walking Distances by Lloyd Alter 10/19/2020 Treehugger
The Slow Death of Purposeless Walking by Finlo Rohrer BBC Magazine 5/1/2014
The Crisis in American Walking How we got off the Pedestrian Path by Tom Vanderbilt posted 10 April 2012
Walking While Black Essay on the Realities of Being Black in America by Garnette Cadogan published 7/8/2016 in LIT HUB
Unearthing LA's Pedestrian Tunnels and Their Roots in Our History of Traffic Violence by Ryan Fonseca 6/1/2022 

Blogs, Vlogs, Videos regarding Active Transportation

Active Towns - creating a culture of activity - You Tube Channel with John Simmerman
America Walks Blog 
​Every Body Walk! (The site has been archived but the links seem to be working)
You may still find the videos from this organization that partnered with Kaiser Permanente to promote walking.
PEDPDX Pedestrian Stories - How do you walk in Portland 8 stories
​​The Street Project An inspiring story about global, citizen-level fight to make our streets safer
​12 Days of Creative & Local Pedestrian Advocacy Tips by Jonathon Stalls and Annika Lundkvist 3/17/2023 from America Walks Blog

Reports:

​APHA Benchmark Report Biking and Walking
​The 2017 Walking Report Card on Walking and Walkable Communities 
Step it Up Status Report 2017 
​​Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities. Launched Sept 9 2015.​​

Resources:

AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit downloadable forms
Active Transportation Policy Hub rails-to-trails conservancy
​Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety
Federal Funding Rails to Trails Funding for Trails
FHA Bicycle and Pedestrian Program
FHA STEP Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian
​Governor's Highway Safety Association (GHSA)
​National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project (NBPD)
​National Physical Activity Plan Alliance (NPAP) 
Oregon Coast Trail Action Plan 2023
Portland Walking Guide Portland OR Portland.gov
Pedestrian Dignity Intrinsic Paths
Pedestrians First tools for a walkable city
Pedestrian Bike Information Center
Pedestrian Safety in the Community  from Lever & Ecker PLLC
​Rails to Trails Conservancy Trail-Building Toolbox
Steps to a Walkable Community A guide for citizens, planners and engineers (PDF)
Walk the Talk A Fitness Professional's Guide to Developing Walking Programs 
Walk This Way A Guide for Developing Individual and Community walking Programs ​

​Websites:

​America Walks making America a great place to walk
American Trails building the future of trails
American Trails Training - Training and Networking
Arkansas Walking College to find and develop advocates to make communities more walkable
Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) expertise for active transportation
PedbikeInfo National Center for Biking and Walking
​California Walks Stepping up for Health, Equity and Sustainability
Families for Safe Streets 
International Federation of Pedestrians - working for pedestrians and livable space
​Knight Foundation 8-80 cities
​Jane's Walk Citizen-led walking tours towards community-based city building
​Made2Walk Walking pedestrian advocacy
Mark Fenton Engineering physical activity back into American communities and lives
​Netwalking foster collaborative working relationships through walking 
PATH Hawaii Connecting People and Places
​Partnership for Active Transportation Together, building healthy places for healthy people
Partnership for the National Trails System connect strengthen amplify
Pedestrian Dignity A grassroots awareness and educational approach Jonathon Stalls
​Perils for Pedestrians TV talk about people who walk and online videos
StreetFilms showing better ways to live work and play
10 Minute Walk Improving access to parks and greenspaces
Tactical Urbanist Guide (Walk Your City signs) 
​The Walking Classroom Walk.Listen.Learn
​Walk Massachusetts Making Massachusetts more walkable
Walk Denver Changing the ways Denver gets around
​Walk San Francisco It is about pedestrian safety
Walkable Communities Inc. - Building walkable communities
​Walk Score Live where you love
​Walk score Methodology 
​Walk21 The walking movement
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Online Visual Resources:​

​ Great Sydney Harbour Walk: The trail from Eora Nation to the Opera House 

Walk in the Park: Irvine the City of trails From Every Body Walk 

​The documentary is about Michael Arth. He is an American artist, home/landscape/urban designer, public policy analyst, advocate for the homeless, futurist, documentary filmmaker and author. (Bio courtesy of Wikipedia)