"The pandemic made people more aware of how important well-being is," she says. "Residents have come to expect community amenities and programs to help maintain their health in the place where they are spending the most time — at home." ...
As racial tensions escalate, campuses are seeing a surge in enrollment and a new brand of African-American activism.
Walkability–the measure of how friendly an area is to walking, including the presence of pathways and sidewalks, user enjoyment, safety, and proximity to area amenities like schools, parks, restaurants, and shops–has always been an asset for rental properties. After all, there is a reason fo...
although not registered disabled often face similar access barriers.sThis is a principle readily demonstrated with the example of graded sidewalks [=-=Corcoran & Corcoran 2002-=-]; gradedssidewalks provide obvious benefits for those in wheelchairs, however they are also useful for mothers withspush...
"How are those spaces being radically reimagined to be made for and centering people and not cars?" The videos make it clear why streets, sidewalks, and public spaces need to be redesigned. They amplify people's experiences to TikTok users around the country, as well as those in power, us...
Rollins:Queer friendly has always been friendly in underground (spaces). Queer friendly was not rooted to rainbow sidewalks. Queer friendly were the places that you could go to be who you were and that never was the world at large. So now we’ve got rainbow sid...
They are often disfigured by demoralizing neglect–“cracked sidewalks, a shabby lawn, and peeling paint on every window sash,” to quote the Carnegie report. Many big-city elementary schools have numbers instead of names, making them as coldly dispiriting as possible. Stamping Out Republican ...
Walking around the city can also be dangerous and requires complete vigilance and a level of confidence and trust you never knew rested within you. Sidewalks are for parking scooters, washing dishes, and cooking — not for walking. Therefore, you have to walk in the street with non-stop traf...
structures the visual appeal would be jarring. But this is Detroit, a city that has lost so much of the income and tax base needed to support the commercial areas and supporting infrastructure. That means empty buildings, broken sidewalks, poor street conditions, and a continuing spiral of ...
Yes, lack of 【C15】___centers, playgrounds, and streets and sidewalks that【C16】___walking, biking and playing are important, they wrote. But, they added, "this is not the whole story." Among children with parents who【C17】___high on the socioeconomic scale, participation in...