Walking may be the most ancient mode of human transportation, but in the 21st-century United States it has become an endangered form of locomotion. That was the gist of journalist Tom Vanderbilt’s keynote address at a symposium called “Walking and the Life of the City” held yesterday by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management…
But some of the most interesting research presented at the forum suggested that smart phones could make urban walking the hot new thing again, although perhaps at a cost to our traditional spatial cognition.
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