Author: Steve Hankey

Steve Hankey

About Steve Hankey

Steve is a graduate student in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include urban air quality, measuring non-motorized traffic, and healthy neighborhood design.

Is a walkable neighborhood always a healthy neighborhood?

In planning culture “walkable” or “bikeable” neighborhoods seem to be synonymous with healthy neighborhoods. The logic is straightforward: neighborhoods that promote walking and biking increase residents’ physical activity and that’s good for health. The research mostly backs this up; specifically, most studies find walkable neighborhoods have more active residents. (An interesting outlier is Minneapolis-St. Paul […]