Category: Transportation and Health

  • Forum Links Health and Urban Design

    The Oregon Environmental Council is hosting a forum: Healthier by Design: Urban Lifestyles and the Built Environment on January 26th. This is part of their Healthy Environment series.

  • Walking, Health and Engineering

    Over at Blue Oregon, Leslie Carlson has written a great piece about the health benefits of walking and how opportunities for walking have been engineered out of our society. Read and comment there…

  • If You’re Happy and You Know It…

    “What does happiness have to do with transportation?” you may ask. I will tell you but first bear with me for a description of a new paradigm for public policy outlined by London School of Economics professor in his new book entitled “Happiness.” It may be hard to believe that there was a time when…

  • What Transportation Network Would Jesus Design?

    I swiped this one from 1000 Friends’ e-mail newsletter. Religious leaders are getting behind New Urbanism on the grounds that “the philosophy behind New Urbanism is a possible antidote to the isolation experienced by many churches and Christians.” Sprawl makes it more difficult for churches to achieve their objectives, Bess said. For example, anyone who…

  • Write Happiness into the Transportation Plan

    Yeah, Portland is a national leader in transportation and land use planning. Early visionaries set the pace: Governor Tom McCall, Neil Goldschmidt, Ernie Bonner, followed by recent stars: Charlie Hales, Elsa Coleman, Mia Birk, and my favorite Rex Burkholder just to name a few. (Extra)ordinary citizens also shaped the vision of a lively, 24-hour downtown…