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Tag Archives: stairs
Walkable placemaking with outdoor public stairways
Note: – For purposes of this blogpost, stairways, stairs, and stair-steps are used interchangeably. Post updated 2/16/23 _______ The first time it occurred to me that outdoor stairways could be an important walkability tool for cities was while visiting Edinburgh, … Continue reading
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Outdoor urban stairways from heaven
As a follow-up to last Friday’s post on ULI’s Building Healthy Places Toolkit, this montage depicts images of a dozen of the planet’s most famous and/or intriguing outdoor urban stairways. Aside from the public health benefits derived from promoting walkability, … Continue reading
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Tagged archtecture, art, cities, design, fitness, health, recreation, staircases, stairs, stairways, steps, walking
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ULI’s 21 great ways to build healthy places!
The Urban Land Institute recently released its Building Healthy Places Toolkit. The document “outlines 21 practical and evidence-based recommendations that the development community can use to promote health at the building or project scale.” The recommendations are broken into … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cities, design, environment, healthy places, land use ULI, planning, staircases, stairs, stairways, sustainability, Urban Land Institute, urban planning
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