Sentence examples for pedestrian cities from inspiring English sources

For pedestrian cities like New York, architecture has always had a civic dimension, and been part of public life.

Early this fall, the designer John Bartlett said, "There's so much information walking down the street every day, you can't help but be inspired by it," adding that this is particularly so in pedestrian cities like London, Paris and New York.

Newman and Kenworthy [17] describe this trend as the transfer from "pedestrian cities" to the modern "automobile city".

The "pedestrian cities", characterized by a unique compact nucleus, have been developed until the middle of the XIX century in Europe; afterwards there is a shift toward building small centres localized along the main railway systems ("transit oriented cities").

Granted, in a pedestrian city given to seasonal flooding, comfort and practicality in footwear are primary concerns.

So, for culture we need infrastructure: the Hudson Yards as a new center, a pedestrian city, bicycles as popular as they are in Paris.

Let's get water fountains out on the streets and in the parks of our great pedestrian city — not a handful, but thousands and thousands.

You kept hearing snatches of conversation as the news spread and people confronted the sudden reduction of London to a pedestrian city.

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement — pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation — are accommodated with equal priority.

In contrast, a 20th-century home along the outer rim of the medina, particularly in the Batha and Ziat neighborhoods, can start at 1 million dirham if it has parking, a rare feature in this predominantly pedestrian city.

Suit by suit, the lawyers are forcing this tough and intensely pedestrian city, so resistant to change, to meet standards for accessibility that are more than 20 years old.