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• How might Malchik and Laker respond to the following questions: How does where you live influence how you live? How is a neighborhood’s social ecology linked to other (eco)systems? What are the threats to walking?

Malchik believed that the location that person lives in affects their ability to walk and travel the area comfortably. A person living in a busy city like New York, for example, would most likely have a more stressful time walking around their place than a person living in a small suburb, mostly due to the fact that large cities have so many independent variables flying in every direction, such as cars. Malchik also talks about a person’s location affects their access to certain facilities, such as schools and hospitals; some areas are more privileged than others in this regard. Laker meanwhile discusses the idea that the traffic density of a particular area affects the safety of walking pedestrians, giving examples of cities where traffic collisions (between cars, bikes and walkers) are a big issue, such as Bank Junction in London. They believe the world’s current obsession with the automobile and vehicular transport is a threat to the future of walkability in cities.

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Some times when I walk this route at night, a beautiful Husky dog is looking down from the second story window. It wasn’t there tonight.

This is an intersection a few blocks from the lake. I’ve always liked it because of the pink street lamp.