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A quick reminder that there are several community events<\/a> in the next couple of days related to the Walk21 conference starting this evening in Toronto.<\/p>\n

I am going to try to blog about the conference as it happens. Here are a few quick tidbits from the first event, TCAT’s “Our Streets” workshop on Sunday, from former Chief Planner Paul Bedford’s presentation:<\/p>\n

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To demonstrate the economic power of walking: the new Canadian Tire store at Bay and Dundas has the highest sales-per-square-foot of any store in the chain — almost entirely from people on foot.<\/p>\n

Idea: neighbourhood walking days. Encourage everyone in the city to walk for 15 minutes and see how far they get. What destinations will they find that turn out to be that close? A convenience store, a park?<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, the city turned a couple of city-owned parking lots into parks, including Berczy Park where Wellington meets Front. A Brazilian mayor referred to this kind of targeted transformation as “urban acupuncture.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I wonder, now that the city is, instead, turning urban buildings into parking lots<\/a>, what do we call it?<\/p>\n

More to follow …<\/p>\n

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photo by Adam Krawesky<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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