Creating a pedestrian-friendly community often means tackling the challenges to walking from several different angles at the same time. To address that reality, Sam Schwartz Engineering and America Walks teamed up to create the guide Steps to a Walkable Community. This resource features tactics and case studies in multiple disciplines and integrates them with other emerging ideas. This guide is available in multiple formats (website, pdf, and hardcopy) and is also the basis for webinars, trainings, and walkshops™ to help put innovative, multidisciplinary pro-walking tactics in the hands of citizens, planners, and engineers.
About Steps To A Walkable Community
Mission
Partners
America Walks, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit national organization. Our mission is to make America a great place for walking by working collaboratively to share knowledge, advance policies and implement effective campaigns to promote safe, convenient and accessible walking conditions for all. Our work includes building diverse and powerful coalitions that provide strong voices to advance and protect walking at the national and local levels.
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Sam Schwartz Engineering (SSE) is a leading traffic and transportation planning and engineering firm. Through our technical expertise, creative visioning and consensus-building, SSE solves highly complex traffic and transportation challenges for government, private-sector, not-for-profit and community clients all over the world.
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Sponsors
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – DNPAO: CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) utilizes a public health approach to address the role of nutrition and physical activity in improving the public's health and preventing and controlling chronic diseases. The scope of DNPAO activities includes leadership, policy and guidelines development, surveillance, epidemiological and behavioral research, intervention development, technical assistance to states and communities, training and education, communication, and partnership development.
Press Information
America Walks and Sam Schwartz Engineering are proud to bring you the walksteps.org website. Please download our press release.