Brain Pickings takes a look at city planner Jeff Speck's Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time [Amazon] that discusses the benefits of making a city more walkable and notes his "General Theory of Walkability."
The General Theory of Walkability explains how, to be favored, a walk has to satisfy four main conditions: it must be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. Each of these qualities is essential an none alone is sufficient. Useful means that most aspects of daily life are located close at hand and organized in a way that walking serves them well. Safe means that the street has been designed to give pedestrians a fighting chance against being hit by automobiles; they must not only be safe but feel safe, which is even tougher to satisfy. Comfortable means that buildings and landscape shape urban streets into ‘outdoor living rooms,’ in contrast to wide-open spaces, which usually fail to attract pedestrians. Interesting means that sidewalks are lined by unique buildings with friendly faces and that signs of humanity abound.Try to think about how any of that theory applies to the current "walkability" of South Florida. We all have our experiences. We all read Transit Miami.
Seriously, just how far off the mark is South Florida from Speck's theory?
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