Linked by spurts of speed: it only looks as like it as damn it; and, sure, we ought really to rest thankful
Bob spoke about how people tend to walk faster in larger cities, with this relationship surprisingly consistent. (…)
The early movers in this area of research were Bornstein and Bornstein, who between 1972 and 1974 went to 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia and measured the speed of pedestrians. They took a 50 feet stretch in similar downtown areas of each city and measured the speed of single, unencumbered walkers traversing that distance.
The slowest walkers were from Itea, Greece (population 2,500), who took an average of 22 seconds to cover the 50 feet. In Prague, a city of over 1 million, the pedestrians covered the distance in a flying average of 8.5 seconds.
related { Peter Jacques Band, Walking on music, 1979 }
