{"id":277163788,"date":"2013-10-13T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=277163788"},"modified":"2013-10-13T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:56:28","slug":"get-moving-creating-a-research-strategy-for-active-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=277163788","title":{"rendered":"Get moving: Creating a research strategy for active cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Welle, The City Fix<\/p>\n<p><em>Many cities around the globe are home to dangerous roads, social stigmas that bicycling is \u201cfor the poor,\u201d and urban designs that neglect walking and bicycling. Photo by Slightly-less-random.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cities around the globe are seeing a creeping problem of growing physical inactivity, due in part to the lack of pleasurable every-day walking and bicycling. While in some cities there are ample facilities for a refreshing commute on bicycle, a leisurely stroll to the neighborhood market or park, or the ability to walk to high-quality public transport, many of the world\u2019s metropolises are home to dangerous roads, social stigmas that bicycling is \u201cfor the poor,\u201d and urban designs that neglect walking and bicycling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physical inactivity currently causes 3.2 million deaths worldwide every year, and a growing number of the world\u2019s inactive population comes from low- and middle-income countries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecityfix.com\/blog\/get-moving-creating-research-strategy-for-active-cities-active-transport-ben-welle\/\">https:\/\/thecityfix.com\/blog\/get-moving-creating-research-strategy-for-active-cities-active-transport-ben-welle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Welle, The City Fix Many cities around the globe are home to dangerous roads, social stigmas that bicycling is \u201cfor the poor,\u201d and urban designs that neglect walking and bicycling. Photo by Slightly-less-random. Cities around the globe are seeing a creeping problem of growing physical inactivity, due in part to the lack of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=277163788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get moving: Creating a research strategy for active cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277163788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277163788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277163788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277163788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277163788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277163788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277163788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}