Monday, January 11, 2010

10 most walkable cities

The Daily Green (http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/most-walkable-cities-460708) lists America's 10 most walkable cities. You can argue about the selection, but here it is anyway: San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Portland. I mean, there's a lot of other things you can say of LA. But here it is a case of potentially walkable neighborhoods when people take the car.

Walkability strongly increases the liveability of a city. Some of the cities have a real trackrecord in Walkers Paradise scores. The ranking was made by Walk Score (www.walkscore.com) which ranks neighborhoods in 40 US cities as to their walkability. Very Jane Jacobs - this is the street ballet. With a walkability score of over 90, you're a walker's paradise. New York city has 38 walker's paradises. 3 NY neighborhoods have 100% score: Tribeca, Little Italy and Soho.

Walk Score is a recommendable site.

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