BIOL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walk Score, Walkability, Food Security
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There are many tools out there that can be used to measure health". Keeping with this course, your goal is to measure/evaluate the environment not the individual! Using already developed and validated tools will make your task easier. Will also help you link your findings to existing literature: walkability audits. City of vancouver"s walk goal: every neighborhood to have a walk score of at least 70. Currently, 14/22 neighborhoods have a walk score of equal or over 70. Walkability is the measure of how conducive an area is to walking. Health benefits: walkability indices correlate with lower bmi and higher rates of physical activity. Environmental benefits: decrease carbon footprint of an area. Socioeconomic benefits: costs savings to individual and public, increased efficiency of land use, increased economic development. Neighborhood environmental walkability scale abbreviated (news-a: residential density, land-use mix-diversity, land-use mix -access, street connectivity, infrastructure and safety for walking, aesthetics, traffic hazards, crime.
