Healthier and Happier Lives

There are few things more basic to human life than walking.

We lost sight of this fact over recent decades, building new communities all over the world where moving on foot is dangerous or unappealing if not downright impossible. That’s beginning to change now as research shows the simple of act of walking offers surprising benefits for our health, our prosperity, and the vitality of our communities.

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obesogenic cities

“The ways in which we’ve been designing our cities have been making us sick. … We’ve inadvertently designed physical activity out of our lives. Rates of childhood obesity have tripled in the last three decades. Adult obesity has doubled.”

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