CBC.ca radio peice on walking:
Mentions that young people can't afford cars and seek walkable places.Walking, a Pedestrian Pursuit (01:24:44)
- Walking in Paris with John Baxter, author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, (1:26:50)
- Daniel Lieberman, one of the world's foremost experts on how - and why - we humans walk on two legs. (1:34:31)
- An essay by Jane Farrow, co-author of one of the first studies in North America of the walkability of inner-suburban high-rise neighbourhoods.(2:00:11)
- A conversation about walking as a way of life with; Wayne Curtis, a contributing editor to The Atlantic Magazine and the author of a forthcoming history of walking in America; best-selling author Alexandra Horowitz, a psychologist and animal behaviourist, whose latest book is On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes; and Toronto architect and urban designer Ken Greenberg, a passionate advocate of walkability, and the author of Walking Home. (2:05:09)
- An essay by Robert MacFarlane, author of The Old Ways, about walking in the steps of, and among the ghosts of, our ancestors.(2:33:23)
You have to download the MP3 "podcast":
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/sund ... _36518.mp3
and go to 1:25
(skipping the first 1 1/2 hrs):
Michael's Essay: In U.S. gun control debate, angry rhetoric drowns out fact (00:00:25)
Temple Grandin on her book, The Autistic Brain (00:04:55)
Essay: My First Violence, by Ralph Bongard (00:29:02)
Documentary: Be There for Me. For women with limited resources a cancer diagnosis presents unimaginable difficulties. An agency called The Nanny Angel Network aims to provide a bit of relief - a weekly block of free childcare for mothers with cancer. Documentary by Alisa Siegel (00:36:28)
Author Edward Rutherfurd on his new book, Paris (01:04:11)