Livable and Walkable Communities

March
16
2011
Washington DC is considered one of the most walkable cities in the country-- but is the Anacostia neighborhood walkable? Courtesy of Andrea Wenzel.

In this discussion, we hear ideas for making housing that is not just affordable, but also places where people want to live.

The community brainstorming session hosted by One DC explores what livable housing would look like. Thanks to participants: Sirish Agarwal, Dewayne Brown, Patricia Penny, Eric Sheptack, Ann Wilcox, Jane Zara, Malcolm, Meron, and Vernice.

The U.S. government’s Sustainable Communities Partnership combines the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation. John Frece, director of the Office of Sustainable Communities at the EPA, explains how they hope to make communities more walkable.

Washington, D.C., has been rated high as a walkable city. But some neighborhoods lag behind. Resident Vernice Woodland gives a walking tour of her Anacostia neighborhood and shares ideas for how she’d like to see her community develop. 

Throughout the discussion we hear from:

Celine D’Cruz, Shack and Slum Dwellers International

Eric Tars, Human Rights Program Director the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

Dhiru Thadani, architect and urban planner, board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, author of The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary.

 

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