Creating Walkable Communities: Understanding Trade-Offs

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Carlson, Susan A. ; Omura, John D. ; Watson, Kathleen B. ; Fulton, Janet E.
• Description:
  Implementing community design strategies can offer benefits related to walkability; however, they may also come with trade-offs to other community needs and desires. We examined public sentiment for 2 trade-offs among 2014 SummerStyles survey respondents (n = 3,995). About 33% of adults reported strongly favoring safer street design even if driving is slower; only 19% reported strongly favoring community design with walkable destinations even if homes are closer together. Walking frequency was positively associated with strongly favoring trade-offs, while differences by other demographic characteristics depended on the trade-off. Addressing public sentiment for potential trade-offs may be important when promoting walkable design strategies.
• Subjects:
  Brief
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 15.
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd15.180123
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  30171679
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6130294
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  15
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7159903f821876b7fdfa62d9a60fa57b4e7f8fc95a926417cadf9e43c9c9ff1abed065994429da8f6ac16ce9923890e5343f088f0010f316476d4db2fea3370c
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