TY - JFULL AU - Miguel Amado and João Freitas and Eveline Rodrigues and Rosario Ribeiro PY - 2013/9/ TI - Walkability as a Strategy towards Inclusive Communities: Case of a Portuguese Small Town T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 593 EP - 600 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9996657 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 80, 2013 N2 - The United Nations has defined the inclusive community as “…promoting growth with equity, a place where everyone, regardless of their economic means, gender, race, ethnicity or religion, is enabled and empowered to fully participate in the social, economic and political opportunities that cities have to offer”. In this paper, the concept of walkability is viewed as an important tool towards the planning and future development of more inclusive communities. Walking is the cheapest and cleanest mode of travel available to all providing large benefits to both health and local economic development. To demonstrate the validity of this strategy a set of parameters, selected from existing research, were measure, compared and discussed in the existing and proposed scenarios of a Portuguese small town using GIS software. ER -