Walkable Neighborhoods

I haven’t been posting much lately, but I want to start getting in the habit of doing so again. So, here’s a fun way to kick it off… with gum!
A friend of mine just returned from Seattle and showed me some photos of an alley covered in gum. I had visited the same alley before [...]

I suppose this title may not be completely accurate, but I wanted to analyze my dear friends here in Copenhagen a bit. The family I am staying with here moved from Seattle last summer for a job opportunity with the World Health Organization. It has been fun staying in this nice neighborhood filled with embassy [...]

Slow Up
I went to the grocery store the other day to purchase WAY too many bars of Swiss chocolate and the paper bag available for bagging had people bicycling and skating on it. After asking my new friend for a translation, she told me that there was a list of different Swiss cities down [...]

There’s lovely walking paths everywhere here…this is one of our neighborhood paths separated by hedges. I spent hours walking around the Lake of Zurich last night on a wonderful path next to the water. Zurich is currently in the process of closing down many of their city centre roads for new trams, and expanding their [...]

My friend was commenting at the train station that the Swiss (at least in the cities) tend to stay to themselves and aren’t particularly that friendly on transit. I found this funny, since I’ve heard comments that the American mentality of personal independence is partly why so many of us drive alone instead of getting [...]

What makes a community walkable?

Whether a student, professor, or professional in the field of transportation or urban design, we have all tried to wrap our hands around this question. We’ve also all heard at some point that those Europeans seem to walk around their cities and neighborhoods quite a bit! I would also say that [...]