Talking Kid-Friendly Communities w/ Darcy Kitching (video available)

In this episode, I welcome back Darcy Kitching for a conversation about her research on creating more kid-friendly communities, safer, more inviting, and even joyous streets for people, and the upcoming Boulder Walk360 event she'll be leading once again this year.

Video version of this episode

So excited to welcome back Darcy Kitching for an update on her doctoral dissertation research on the topic of creating kid-friendly communities, her upcoming edition of the Boulder Walk360 event, and her efforts to grow the Streets Are For People movement in Boulder, Colorado.

Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
- Tern HSD e-assist cargo bike
- James Rojas - Place It
- Growing Up Boulder
- Tim Gill episode
- Jeff Speck episode
- Charles "Chuck" Marohn episode
- Chuck Marohn - Strong Towns: A bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity
- Chuck Marohn -  Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
- Not Just Bikes video on what a STROAD is
- Will Norman's episode
- Curbing Traffic - Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
- Open Streets video
- Darcy's Best Urban Hikes Boulder book
- Growing Up Boulder
- Walk2Connect Collective
- Boulder Vision Zero
– My Walk360 video
– Boulder Ramblers

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Background:

Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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