Walk Cincinnati - Promotional Video HD

Local artists and educators Chris Luessen and Beth Porter here. Our goal is to compile a new collaborative walking tour guide featuring different perspectives, destinations and neighborhoods from around the city of Cincinnati. You may have heard of our first walking tour efforts, which earned praise and reception from local news organizations such as the Cincinnati Enquirer and U.C. News. Now we want to create a professionally printed, new and expanded edition featuring more neighborhoods in Cincinnati! This updated edition will have photographs, historical research for each neighborhood, and more walking tours with unique, hand-drawn maps and textual descriptions. A full map of Cincinnati will be at the back of the book to allow walkers to reference Cincinnati as a whole. Each contributor (tour guide) will have a photo and interview as well! We love the idea of personalizing Cincinnati and fostering a greater sense of community. In recent years, the discussion of urban planners has been largely focused on creating adequate and attractive pedestrian facilities, rather than more walkable cities. Our collaboratively compiled walking tour book seeks to encourage citizens and visitors to the city of Cincinnati to get out there and explore, to experience new streets, sidewalks and neighborhoods and to celebrate the often taken for granted practice of walking. The thing that makes the worlds biggest, best and most walkable cities (Rome, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Paris, New York) is what planers call "fabric," the everyday collection of streets, blocks and buildings that tie destinations together. Our walking tour book assumes that in order to weave a city fabric that is rich, people need to be reminded that walking in the city of Cincinnati is interesting, safe and full of connected destinations. Creative-class citizens, especially millennials, vastly favor communities with street life, the pedestrian culture that can only come from walkability. Our walking tour book strives to include a multitude of voices, from artists to historians, educators to students and young folks to elderly citizens. It is our belief that walking can benefit all demographics of people: it can help our city thrive economically, it can promote healthy living and safety and it will make our city more sustainable for generations to come.