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How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
July 22, 2007
Posted by: Carol
This is fun. Get your neighborhood's walkability score here. Just log in with your address. Super simple.
My current Chicago neighborhood scores a 67 out of 100 (no doubt due to too little retail in the immediate vicinity, but plenty within my walking distance -- we're only 17 minutes on foot to Michigan Avenue), but my soon to be neighborhood scores a 93. (One obvious problem with the scoring: Info comes from Google maps which are not always up to date. The Borders across my new location, for instance, is not included in the bookstore listing.)
My downtown Memphis neighborhood scores an 80.
David, July 23, 2007
My current neighborhood is capitol hill in dc and it ranks a 67. But it is clear this tool is blunt -- ie schools don't matter too much in dc b/c kids go all over the district and outside. also, on all attributes they are counting quantity not quality... ie the library of congress and and folger shakespeare library are less than a mile from me down tree lined streets...not your typical libraries... just some thoughts, but fun tool!
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Philippe Marson, July 25, 2007
"Super simple." Well, there's certainly something to be said for simplicity. Their "patent-pending algorithm" looks at the distance to nearby stores, schools and other features (courtesty of Google), and gives more points to places that are closer. Genius! Unfortunately, they admit that they don't figure in whether there are sidewalks, freeways, or other impediments (note the wordplay, please), or even calculate the distance via roadways (they use "as-the-crow-flies", not "as-the-user-walks." So you can live in a beautiful tree-lined neighbourhood, made for evening strolling and morning jogging, and your address could garner a dismal score if there is no McDonalds and 7-11 next to your house. Hmm... Flawed at best, misleading at worst. Sometimes simple is best, but sometimes it is just plain... simple-minded.
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