{"id":2027,"date":"2013-09-23T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:24:39","slug":"plan_to_walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/plan_to_walk","title":{"rendered":"Why People Don&#8217;t Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Changes in the community environment to promote physical activity may offer the most practical approach to prevent obesity or reduce its co-morbidities. Restoration of physical activity as part of a daily routine represents a critical goal.<br \/>\n<cite>\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Jeffrey Koplan and Dr. William Dietz, Centers for Disease Control<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"street image\" src=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/images\/freepub\/pw_street.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"136\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many elements of conventional land use planning and design throw up barriers to walking. In many cases it&#8217;s unpleasant and dangerous to try to walk from work to a restaurant, or from home to school. Not only does this force a reliance on the automobile for routine daily travel, it denies residents and workers the important health benefits of regular walking. In this <a title=\"PDF: Why People Don't Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It\" href=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/focus\/plan_to_walk.pdf\">fact sheet<\/a> (PDF, 2 MB) photographs tell the story of common barriers to walking, and how more pedestrian-oriented design and infrastructure can remove the barriers and create more livable communities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PDF: Why People Don't Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It\" href=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/focus\/plan_to_walk.pdf\">Why People Don&#8217;t Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It<\/a> (PDF, 2 MB).<\/p>\n<p>A color hard copy can be requested by calling the Local Government Commission at 916-448-1198, or 1-800-290-8202.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i><div class=\"textBlock\" style=\"text-align:left;\">This project is funded by the Physical Activity and Health Initiative, California Department of Health Services under a Preventive Health Services Block Grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Work performed as part of a UC San Francisco contract.<\/div><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in the community environment to promote physical activity may offer the most practical approach to prevent obesity or reduce its co-morbidities. Restoration of physical activity as part of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29,20,48,83],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource","tag-community-design","tag-fact-sheet","tag-healthy-communities","tag-overcoming-barriers-to-walkable-communities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}