Chapter 7

Activities

Activity 7.1
The films for this activity are:
Market Street, San Francisco, 1906.
General Motors. 1937. “Conquering Roads”

Activity 7.2
The 1972 Dutch film about how children demanded safe play space in a street in Amsterdam is here: De Pijp, Amsterdam.

Activity 7.4
Start with these two sources:
Carey, Christopher. 2022. “Tallinn introduces predictive digital transport model.” Cities Today.

This site also has a link to a downloadable slide set.

Activity 7.5
Watch this pro-AV video produced by CNN Business: Our Driverless Future: City of Tomorrow, and then Watch Jeff Speck’s critique of AVs (you can start at about minute 8).

Activity 7.7
The Smart Location Calculator measures the environmental benefits of workplace location efficiency.

Sidebars

Sidebar 7.1
The National Walkability Index is a nationwide geographic data resource that ranks places (census block groups) according to their relative walkability:

Sidebar 7.2
The organization PeopleForBike’s has produced a Bicycle Network Analysis:

Sidebar 7.4
Culdesac, in Tempe, Arizona, is a car-free city with the motto “how you move defines how you live.”

Sidebar 7.7
The Center for Neighborhood Technology developed an eTOD Social Impact Calculator for Chicago that helps make the case for eTOD.