Author: Steve Hankey

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.

An aerial view of Loring Park, Minneapolis. Image: Google.

Is a Walkable Neighborhood Always a Healthy Neighborhood?

Bicycling
Transportation
Walking

Steve Hankey • October 9, 2013

Urbanists focus on walkability as an indicator of a healthy neighborhood, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else.