Sentence examples for walkable from inspiring English sources

People prefer liveable, walkable communities," she says.

And this worries him.As the college-educated flock to these progressive El Dorados, many factors are cited as reasons: transit systems, density, bike lanes, walkable communities, robust art and cultural scenes.

Tampa is not a very walkable city; it's an American paradise of strip malls and strip clubs where you can always find a parking spot but rarely see a bicycle.

Unlike European trams, which often cover long stretches in independent lanes, American streetcars tend to span walkable distances and share the road with other vehicles.

Both are in the process of redeveloping major jobs centres from an automobile orientation to tall, dense, walkable, city-like development patterns based around transit.Suburbanisation in America was the norm for over a generation, so it's a little early to conclude that these trend breaks represent a new development paradigm.

Yet this suburb was a city before cars existed, making it especially dense, walkable and charming.

Florida's cities are especially bad because like in many places in the south they are fairly new, and so they never went through a stage of development before the car when it was necessary to build walkable streets.At least Florida now seems to understand the problem.

Both the walkable neighbourhoods and the unspoilt surroundings, she believes, help to attract young, bright migrants to the city.Planning officials do not deny that the rules they oversee probably impede economic growth on the margins.

Its growth infuriates new urbanists who insist that dense, walkable places such as Manhattan or San Francisco are the future.

Some hole up in "walkable" neighbourhoods and boast about their use of the skeletal subway system as though they lived in a temperate version of New York.

In 2004 Ken Livingstone, then mayor of London, vowed to make London a "walkable city".