Can't believe the places walking directions sends me through in Zurich. Are the planners available to terraform soma?pic.twitter.com/xIaLjyJmzo
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Continuing this series — via walking directions in Reykjavík:pic.twitter.com/Hb5JFmbAIY
I keep this series going because every time I find a beautiful walking path through a natural environment in a city, I am taken by what a good sign it is for quality of life, and I hope maybe to live somewhere with more of these.
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was just reading about the idea of a “Gemba Walk” when I saw your tweet! Maybe this can be the urban planning equivalent :)
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What's a gemba walk?
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A lean manufacturing idea that reminds people to directly see the places/interfaces where people are creating value. Kind of just a structured way to avoid the trap of overly-abstracting reality in an organization. In this context sub “value” for quality of life, org for city!
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Really just puts words to an intuitive / common sense idea… To extend the metaphor: walking between spaces of value creation -> walking between urban hotspots, you see the in-between places that actually dominate the “quality of life” of a city. Ok maybe getting carried away…
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European cities seem so much more in tune with planning urban spaces to be walkable & integrated with nature! I suspect lack of car culture & tendency to be located near defensible natural features (water, mountains)
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Though we aren't allowed to build cities in lots of pretty natural places as they are often protected by law (e.g in Switzerland there's ski lifts to the top of peaks that would be within national parks in the states)
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