Walkable cities reduce cognitive friction

When groceries, transit, and community are within a dense 15-minute walk, the massive background stress of navigating high-speed traffic disappears entirely. Shaping the city to fit the human proves Environment design is more reliable than willpower.¹

Footnotes

1. Speck, J. (2012). Walkable City. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ↩