{"id":21882,"date":"2011-07-20T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2012-11-25T00:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:27:43","slug":"most-walkable-cities-in-u-s-2011-voting-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/most-walkable-cities-in-u-s-2011-voting-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Walkable Cities in U.S. (2011 Voting in Progress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love writing on walkable cities. Have you noticed? I’m not the only one, though. There are huge communities and organizations of people working on that one particular issue. There’s also a great website, Walk Score<\/a>, that ranks cities on their walkability (which I’m frustrated to find out is still not a word according to my Google Chrome spell checker).<\/p>\n

Anyway, Walk Score has put the following cities<\/a> (pop. 100,000-10,000,000) at the top of the list on this issue (with the scores below on a 0-100 scale):<\/p>\n

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  1. Cambridge, MA — 88.8<\/li>\n
  2. New York, NY — 85.3<\/li>\n
  3. Jersey City, NJ — 85.2<\/li>\n
  4. San Francisco, CA — 84.9<\/li>\n
  5. Berkeley, CA — 81.6<\/li>\n
  6. Boston, MA — 79.2<\/li>\n
  7. Paterson, NJ — 75<\/li>\n
  8. Chicago, IL — 74.3<\/li>\n
  9. Philadelphia, PA — 74.1<\/li>\n
  10. Newark, NJ — 74<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can view the full list via the link above and can also view by population, state, or city name. More on what the scores mean<\/a> and the methodology.<\/p>\n

    You can also cast your vote for what you think are the most walkable cities using Facebook “like” buttons\u00a0over on the Walk Score<\/a> site.<\/p>\n

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    Based on people’s “likes” on there, the top 10 cities are currently:<\/p>\n

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    1. Seattle<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. San Francisco<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Chicago<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. New York<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. San Diego<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. Boston<\/a><\/li>\n
    7. Portland<\/a><\/li>\n
    8. Los Angeles<\/a><\/li>\n
    9. Washington D.C.<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. Minneapolis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The links above provide much more detail on the walkability of those cities, including walkability scores for each neighborhood! Check out yours if you’re curious and see if you agree.<\/p>\n

      What do you think? Do these rankings match up with your experiences — they seem to match up pretty well with mine, but I haven’t been to all of those cities.<\/p>\n

      More walkability storeis on EcoLocalizer:<\/p>\n

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      1. Walkable & Livable Communities Institute {Green NGO Highlighted}<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. 11 Most Walk-Friendly U.S. Cities<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. 10 Most Walkable Cities in World? [SLIDESHOW]<\/a><\/li>\n
      4. 7- to 14-Year-Olds Get Chance to Design Their \u201cDream Streets\u201d in UK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Photo via Bikoy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        I love writing on walkable cities. Have you noticed? I’m not the only one, though. There are huge communities and organizations of people working on that one particular issue. There’s also a great website, Walk Score, that ranks cities on their walkability (which I’m frustrated to find out is still not a word according to my Google Chrome spell checker).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[902,1065,1066,912,913,1067,1068,1069,1070,1071],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I love writing on walkable cities. Have you noticed? I'm not the only one, though. There are huge communities and organizations of people working on that one particular issue. There's also a great website, Walk Score, that ranks cities on their walkability (which I'm frustrated to find out is still not a word according to…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}