What:
The Walk21 International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities XI will showcase best practices for promoting and supporting walking and sojourning, including the recent 4 year COST 358 Pedestrians’ Quality Needs project and the International Transport Forum project Pedestrian Safety, Urban Space and Health. It also aims to strengthen relationships across sectors (planning, transportation, health, design, economics, safety) to improve walking conditions and create liveable communities and to provide practitioners with research, tools, and strategies they need to improve walking conditions.
For more info:
http://www.walk21.com/thehague/index.html
What:
Each October, millions of children, parents, teachers and community leaders across the globe walk to school to celebrate International Walk to School Day.
Walk to School Day is an energizing event, reminding parents and children alike of the simple joy of walking to school. But it's usually also a kickoff event. Walk to School Day becomes a catalyst for ongoing efforts to increase walking and bicycling all of the time. Keep walking and spread the walking movement beyond the one day.
For more info:
http://www.walktoschool.org
What:
World Car Free Day will be an opportunity to find another way for just one day to get around town, leave the car at home and walk, take a bus, train or cycle around town. All this is to help highlight the pollution caused by cars, not just the fumes but the whole cycle of waste and disruption, the noise, delayed journeys, the whole human misery caused by traffic congestion and car pollution. Almost 40% of the transport sector's CO2 emissions are produced by the use of private cars in cities.
For more info:
http://www.22september.org
What:
"Getting Communities Back on Their Feet: Promising approaches to support walking for a sustainable future." The conference seeks to provide guidance and inspiration in support of the development of walkable environments and to establish walking as a dynamic part of modern living. Five themes of the 2010 program include: Sustaining safe walking; Evaluating the impact of investment in walking; Walking supporting prosperity; Sharing space with cyclists; and Safe, healthy, attractive and accessible environments are a community right.
For more info:
http://www.walk21.com/conferences/thehague.asp
What:
"Join 8-80 Cities (formerly Walk & Bike for Life) for a 3 day Study Tour in Guadalajara Mexico, March 13-15th, 2010. The theme of this Study Tour is Steps Toward a Car Free Sunday where participants will be provided with relevant operational and management tools, international networking experiences and best practice knowledge based on successful Car Free Sunday programs. The intention of this Study Tour is to position key municipal leaders with the knowledge and experience necessary to move forward with plans to start their own Car Free Sunday program in their respective communities.
What:
The theme for the 2010 conference, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is Engaging Communities to Create Active Living Environments. To seriously address the childhood obesity epidemic, it is crucial to engage communities in defining research questions, identifying promising environmental and policy solutions, and ensuring results are meaningful to the people who are affected. The conference agenda will contain a variety of breakfast roundtable discussions, keynote speakers, plenary and concurrent presentations, as well as panel presentations.
Arequipa - Mercaderes Street Pedestrianization
People-Friendly Design
The first four blocks of Mercaderes, the main shopping street in downtown Arequipa, Peru, were transformed into a pedestrian-only path. The first two blocks were completed in December 2008; the final two were finished four months later. In addition, sidewalks were widened on several downtown streets.
Introduction and Overview
From the San Francisco Office of the Mayor:
Sunday Streets is one of San Francisco’s newest and most exciting initiatives. Modeled on a 30-year-old program started in South America, Sunday Streets opens local roads and streets on Sunday mornings for physical activity. In the process, it brings physical activity space to neighborhoods throughout the city, creating a route for tens of thousands of local families, kids, and adults to walk, jog, and bike, and participate in group exercise.
Background
The 10th International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities
From the Walk21 official Web site:
New York City will host Walk21, the annual international pedestrian planning conference, in October 2009. The conference will take place at New York University in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, from Wednesday October 7 to Friday October 9, 2009 and will be hosted by the New York City Department of Transportation.
CST-India Shares Strategies for Active Transport in India
The Interface for Cycling Expertise hosts two workshops to discuss bicycling and walking
Transport experts and community-based organizations came together to discuss how to make Indian cities more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly during two workshops organized by the Interface for Cycling Expertise, a Netherlands-based nonprofit that works to develop sustainable urban and transport plans.
