Walk Score

America's Top Ten Transit Meccas

Real estate's favorite tool for gauging neighborhood walkability now has a companion for transit, Kaid Benfield reports.

April 26, 2012 - Switchboard

Is Walking a Liberal Value?

Will Oremus investigates an occurrence he noticed recently in Tom Vanderbilt's series on walking – that the cities with the highest "walk scores" were all liberal – and asks why conservative cities don't walk.

April 18, 2012 - Slate

Scoring Your Walkability

For the third installment of his series on America's pedestrian problem, Tom Vanderbilt profiles Walk Score, the venerable walkability website and evaluation system.

April 14, 2012 - Slate

Friday Funny: March Mobility Madness

This weekend, the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will be decided on courts in cities across the country. Earlier this week, however, Kaid Benfield crowned his own champion - based on walkability.

March 23, 2012 - Switchboard

Walkable Cities, Walkable Neighborhoods

New neighborhood-level data from the walkability rating website Walk Score has broadened the view of what it means to live in a walkable city.

December 6, 2010 - Nate Berg

Walking into Trouble?

The shortcomings of Walk Score are becoming more apparent as planners look to use it as a measure of walkability, says The Conservative Planner.

October 24, 2010 - Conservative Planner

Walk Score and Water: How Location Affects Pedestrians

Eric A. Morris takes a look at pedestrian-oriented cities with an economist's eyes.

March 27, 2009 - Freakonomics - NY Times Blog

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