WalkScore's New Rankings for Cities
My heroes at WalkScore are out today with updated walkability rankings for American cities. Using the new 2010 Census data and enlarging their analysis to include 2,500 cities, WalkScore's new analysis includes some changes from last time around in 2008. Here are the top 10 big cities for walking. There are some changes from last time around: New York nudged San Francisco out of the top spot; Seattle stuck to the number 6 position with a score of 73.7 (just behind Philadelphia and just ahead of DC); but Portland fell out of the top 10 to the 12th spot with a score of 66.3 (between Long Beach and Los Angeles).
Author: SwatchJunkies
Walkscore.com Grades Neighborhoods on Being Walk-Friendly
New site inspired by Sightline calculates the walkability of an address, emphasizing the benefits of living in a walkable community.
Author: Eric Hess
To Build 1,764 New Homes This Year, Seattle Demolished… Just 21
The story is deeply embedded in popular perceptions of the modern city: modest, low-cost apartments succumb to the wrecking ball to make way for ritzy highrises, putting working-class residents out ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Weekend Reading 7/1/16
Margaret Journalists have been giving a lot of press time to the role of foreign investment and absentee ownership in inflating Vancouver, British Columbia’s housing market these days. But knowing ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Accomplishments
Our purpose as an organization is to provide Cascadia’s community problem solvers with practical vision and innovative thinking, inspiring and empowering them to bring about a healthy, lasting prosperity. We ...
Author: Pivot
A New Measure of Food Deserts, Part 2
Clark’s post last week on a new WalkScore tool that maps which homes are within a five-minute walk to a grocery store reminded me of the always interesting findings from ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
A New Measure of Food Deserts
The concept of a “food desert“—a place where residents have little access to healthy, affordable food—can seem somewhat alien to the well-off. If you’ve got your own car, living close to ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Transit Score: Cascadia Smackdown
The 2014 Canadian Transit Scores are out…and Vancouver, BC clocks in as the third most transit-friendly city in the Great White North, narrowly bested by Toronto and Montreal. Pretty good, ...
Author: SwatchJunkies
Transit Score: Buses Matter
They’re out! The cool kids over at Walk Score just posted their all-new 2014 Transit Score rankings with data on transit service in more than 200 cities across the US. And in good news for the Northwest, Seattle’s Transit Score ranks 7th among all large cities, trailing only New York, San Francisco, Boston, DC, Philly, and Chicago. Portland, meanwhile, ranks 10th. (Note that Transit Scores only rank transit within city limits, and don’t cover suburbs or surrounding municipalities, and that I'm counting cities with at least half a million residents as "large.") There's good news beyond the Northwest, too: on average, transit scores have inched up a bit since 2014---suggesting that more people are living closer to frequent transit service. The bad news, though, is that both Seattle and Portland saw their transit scores fall over the last two years.
Author: SwatchJunkies
Walk Score Scores Again
I never get tired of calling the folks over at Walk Score geniuses. The nation’s most widely used walkability measurement tool just updated its neighborhood rankings, using a new and improved algorithm. ...
