Streetfilms "This is not Italy, this is not ...a piazza"
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National Journal What data support your assertion that "obesity and respiratory illness are dramatically reduced in more walkable, less car-dependent communities"?  There are far too many "walkable, less car-dependent communities" whose members suffer from appalling health conditions and short life expectancy. Are you urging the federal government to force Americans to revert to such conditions?

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Adelaide Now "The land swap will result in a green corridor from Cheltenham to Woodville as well as a sustainable development next to the new tram corridor, which will revitalise the western suburbs. But clearly, we haven't got the message out. People are not linking the land swap with the tram plan."
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  It's not what you expect to hear when discussing walkability, the hot smart growth goal. But the study "Healthy Neighborhoods: Walkability and Air Pollution," which explored Vancouver's built environment,  concludes that the most walkable communities are the likeliest to have the worst air pollution.

"Walkability and air pollution have independently been associated with several adverse health outcomes, including physical inactivity, heart disease, mortality, and atherosclerosis, but health studies have not yet investigated interactive or joint effects," the study published in the  Environmental Health Perspectives journal notes. "Our investigation builds on previous research and highlights the complexities of built environment and health relationships."

Researchers also found clear economic divisions in the results. People in suburban areas where walkability is…

Isthmus "They want to force everybody into high-density areas, to live the way they would prefer we live. So single-family homes not so much; condos, high-density, multi-use, walkable communities, communities on train routes, that's how they'd prefer us to live, which is what this is about." 
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