-2 Design

<P>This section covers technical information to be used as reference material by engineers, architects and designers concerned with pedestrian facilities, and information about the existing walking environment including:<ul><li>Standards (including draft standards) related to pedestrian facilities</li><li>Specifications and design guides</li><li>

Associations of location and perceived environmental attributes with walking in neighbourhoods

Ecological models highlight the importance of environmental influences.
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Walking, from policy to practice - the Geneva case

the Geneva case A paper about making cities walking friendly as opposed to the car friendly cities that have developed over the past forty years
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Creating walkable communities: a guide for local governments

A guide for local governments "This guide is a tool for local governments and concerned citizens. It presents guide- lines, suggestions, and techniques on how to make communities more walkable and pedestrian-friendly.
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Guidelines for providing for journeys on foot

"Describes best practice in planning and providing for pedestrians within the existing UK legislative framework.
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Context sensitive solutions in designing major urban thoroughfares for Walkable Communities

A factsheet which provides planners and designers with information and guidance for using flexibility in exisiting American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials policy and informaiton for context sensitive solutions in design of major urban thoroughfar
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Battling America's epidemic of physical inactivity: building more walkable, liveable communities

Building more walkable, liveable communities An article which explores the possibility of creating environments which promote physical activity, in particular walking.
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Reliability and validity of two instruments designed etc

An article which explores two instruments used to assess the suitability of roads and sid
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Walking and bicycling: an evaluation of environmental audit instruments

Walking and bicycling - Document - Adobe PDF - Acrobat Reader
An article which explores existing environmental instruments used to capture the walkability and bikability of environments
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A community based approach to promoting walking in rural areas

An article about a quasi-experimental design that examines changes in walking behaviour in rural areas.
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Environmental perceptions and walking in English adults

A paper examining the relationship between adults' perceptions of the social and physical environment and their self-reported walking behaviour.
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