Tag: built environment
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One Region, Many Paths: Exploring Health and Equity Across Transportation Policy and Advocacy Webinar: Resources
At the start of 2025, PHEAL, the APA Health Equity and Planning Interest Group, and I co-hosted another webinar focused on transportation, where our speakers discussed how vastly different, and at times how very similar, transportation policies and advocacy can be across a region, and how advocates and practitioners often approach the same challenges from different…
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Netherlands: A Country Built for People, Not Cars
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I was in for a shock. I am originally from NYC, so observing the stark difference between the space given to vehicles and pedestrians was peculiar—the streets for vehicles were narrow, but the sidewalks and bike paths were wide and in abundance. Everywhere I turned, there were parked…
A Healthy Blueprint 