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Urbanism is Public Health - Spaces For People Not Cars
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For too long, our spaces were designed for the convenience and safety of cars, not people. This is backwards. The ultimate goal should be about moving people, not moving cars. When we design spaces with people in mind, the flaws of our current car-centric design become obvious.
If you like to know more about new urbanism, you may like these creators:
Strong Town
Streetcraft
The War on Cars
CityNerd
Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth
Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health
Bluesky Social: @everythingisPH
Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth
Photo Credit:
Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/aerial-view-of-people-walking-on-raod-IBaVuZsJJTo?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash
References:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-subway-buses
https://www.vox.com/policy/354561/pedestrian-fatalities-car-safety-ratings
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776244/
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile
171 episoder
Manage episode 438323124 series 2946041
For too long, our spaces were designed for the convenience and safety of cars, not people. This is backwards. The ultimate goal should be about moving people, not moving cars. When we design spaces with people in mind, the flaws of our current car-centric design become obvious.
If you like to know more about new urbanism, you may like these creators:
Strong Town
Streetcraft
The War on Cars
CityNerd
Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth
Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health
Bluesky Social: @everythingisPH
Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth
Photo Credit:
Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/photos/aerial-view-of-people-walking-on-raod-IBaVuZsJJTo?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash
References:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-subway-buses
https://www.vox.com/policy/354561/pedestrian-fatalities-car-safety-ratings
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776244/
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile
171 episoder
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