{"id":3148,"date":"2014-10-02T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:46:06","slug":"vancouverites-prefer-walkable-neighbourhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/vancouverites-prefer-walkable-neighbourhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouverites prefer walkable neighbourhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health-design.spph.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/09\/Final-Report-Residential-Preferences-and-Public-Health-in-Metro-Vancouver-_09262014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A new report<\/span><\/a> from the University of British Columbia shows that Vancouver residents prefers to live in in a neigbourhood where they can walk to shops, groceries and transit, a new report shows. An infographic with the findings is available below.<\/p>\n<p>Living in a neighbourhoods designed in such a way to encourage walking is linked to lower incidence of high blood pressure in residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health-design.spph.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/09\/INFOGRAPHIC-Residential-Preferences-and-Public-Health-in-Metro-Vancouver_09292014.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3149\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase64f336603ee5483c51.png\" alt=\"png;base64f336603ee5483c51\" width=\"558\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase64f336603ee5483c51.png 558w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase64f336603ee5483c51-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the University of British Columbia shows that Vancouver residents prefers to live in in a neigbourhood where they can walk to shops, groceries and transit, a new report shows. An infographic with the findings is available below. Living in a neighbourhoods designed in such a way to encourage walking is linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-british-columbia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pngbase64f336603ee5483c51.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-OM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}