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IMPROVING WALKABILITY costs money, and budgets are tight. The first step in convincing community leaders to invest in walkability is to demonstrate that such investments pay off. Evidence abounds and can be mustered in support of a handful of powerful arguments.
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Christopher Leinberger, The Option of Urbanism (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007), 98.
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Joe Cortright, “Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Home Values in U.S. Cities,” CEOs for Cities (August 2009), 20, http://blog.walkscore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/WalkingTheWalk_CEOsforCities.pdf.
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Ibid., 24.
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John Greenfield, “If the Future Will Be Walkable, How Do We Make Sure Everyone Benefits,” StreetsBlog Chicago (May 11, 2017).
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Heidi Garrett-Peltier, “Estimating the Employment Impacts of Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Road Infrastructure (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 2010), 1–2.
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Christopher E. Leinberger and Michael Rodriguez, Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros (Washington, DC: George Washington School of Business, 2016), 30, https://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/app/legacy/documents/foot-traffic-ahead-2016.pdf.
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Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez, Carjacked (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 80.
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Elly Blue, “The Free Rider Myth—Who Really Pays for the Roads,” MomentumMag (March 24, 2016).
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Speck, J. (2018). Sell Walkability on Wealth. In: Walkable City Rules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-899-2_1
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