This is a partial listing of resources that may be helpful when considering Seattle's Pedestrian Master Plan.

In no particular order:

• Bands of Green 2006, Plan and Report by Seattle Parks Foundation
• Public Attitude Survey of Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning, Prepared for Wilbur Smith Associates, Bellevue, WA, May 2007. This survey focused on Washington State residents, so results of a similar survey in Seattle would yield different results. This does, however, illustrate sentiments of a general population that are barriers to walking, which is necessary to understand in order to overcome them.
• Open Space Seattle 2100 Report. (pdf doc)
  
• Public Health Walking Maps, Feet First Walking Maps
• *The Brookings Institution, “Barriers to Developing Walkable Urbanism and Possible Solutions”, by Christopher B Leinberger, and Sarah Kavage w/Lawrence Frank & Company (Prepared for King County Office of Regional Transportation Planning / King County Executive’s Office and the HealthScape Advisory Committee)
• “New Data for a New Era: Linking Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality and Health in the Atlanta Region”. Summary of the SMARTRAQ findings, by David Goldbert, Lawrence Frank, Barbara McCann, Jim Chapman, and Sarah Kavage
• "Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Addressing Inequities in Urban Environments", by the Prevention Institute
• "Laying the Groundwork for a Movement to Reduce Health Disparities", by the Prevention Institute. (More of an action plan for addressing health disparities, mentions the built environment but is more useful for giving context about disparities; see the last paragraph on p. 14 though)
  
  Active Living by Design
• The ALbD Fact Sheet website is located at http://www.activelivingbydesign.org/index.php?id=377
• Specifically, all “Active Living Research Fact Sheets” are an important resource (located at the bottom of the page).
  
• Active Living Research Briefing (pdf). Summarizes peer-reviewed research about active living and activity-friendly environments, and suggests ways to use the Designing for Active Recreation, Designing for Active Transportation, and Designing to Reduce Childhood Obesity Fact Sheets. (updated March 2005);
  
• Designing for Active Recreation Fact Sheet (pdf). Summarizes the scientific studies from the health field about the types of environments that are "activity friendly." (Updated February 2005);
• Designing for Active Transportation Fact Sheet (pdf). Summarizes the current state of research into the way community design is related to whether people walk or bicycle to get to where they're going. (Updated February 2005);
  
• Designing to Reduce Childhood Obesity Fact Sheet (pdf). Summarizes the scientific studies about the potential to change children's environments in fighting the obesity epidemic. (February 2005).
  
  
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Guides
• Creation of or enhanced access to places for physical activity combined with informational outreach activities,
  
• Street-scale urban design and land use policies and practices,
  
• Community-scale urban design and land use policies and practices,
  
• Transportation and travel policies and practices
  
  
•  “Improving Pedestrian Access to Transit”. 1998 WalkBoston publication, advocacy oriented…Or comparable newer document that addresses the pedestrian-transit connection
• *Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board, SPAB_PedPlan_Scope Recommendations.pdf
• *“Aging Americans: Stranded without options” publication from the Surface Transportation Policy Project
• *“Mean Streets” Report from the Surface Transportation Policy Project
• Rob Kauffman’s Harborview data (mentioned during the first PMPAG meeting)
• Any studies the City has done on road diets (or another primer on road diets)
• Anne Vernez Moudon work
• “Reclaiming Streets for the People”, Squire Park Project

LINKS

Mental Speed Bumps (David Engwhicht Website): www.mentalspeedbumps.com

Other link forwarded

Active Living by Design: www.activelivingbydesign.org

Active Living Research: www.activeliving.org

Project for Public Spaces: www.pps.org

National Center for Biking and Walking: http://www.bikewalk.org/

Walkable Communities, Inc: http://www.walkablecommunities.org/

Center for Safe Routes to School in Washington: www.saferoutes-wa.org

National Center for Safe Routes to School: http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/

Open Space 2100: www.open2100.org