What better way than to find out, block by block, what specific small scale changes would make large impacts on each neighborhood.

As world-renowned walkability expert Dan Burden puts it, "By bringing people together and taking them out into the neighborhood, a walking audit prompts the kind of down-to-Earth conversations that can build consensus about what’s working and what isn’t. The discussion flows from shared observations, and because participants are discovering for themselves what needs to happen, they take ownership of the task of finding solutions."

It's a very low-budget way to get it done: "In 2011, the walking audit topped the list of tools and strategies that the US Environmental Protection Agency chose to support with technical assistance under its competitive Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities initiative."

Let's do this, Phoenix!