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My name is Pedestrian Pete, and I'm out looking for pedestrians to greet.
Even though the sidewalks are bare, I'll keep walking and never despair. Because I'm out looking for
pedestrians to greet. My name is Pedestrian Pete. But my real name is Peter Brown, and I've been working
hard for many years--architect, urban planner, city councilman--to make Houston a more walkable city.
I think the most important concept, the most important principle about cities--cities by the way
are where everything happens: innovation, creativity, building of wealth, that only happens in the city.
And you've got to have a walkable city. We can just be a car-centric city, and just let suburban sprawl
take over. And, in effect, abandon the central core of our city. We can't do that. Gotta fight hard to
make it walkable. There's some families here that are teaching their kids how to walk in the city. There's a
cultural change that we need to go through here. I think it's happening, and a lot of little things like what
you're doing, AARP is doing, Better Block--all that adds up to changing the culture.
Once we get the culture changed, it'll be a lot simpler to build a great city. We're not there yet.