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Walkscore: Now With Added Features & Analysis

Posted by Glenn on June 4, 2009 - 10:25am in The Oil Drum: Campfire
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: cities, community, mixed use zoning, new urbanism, small towns, walking, walkscore [list all tags]

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Walkscore as a handy tool to estimate the walkability of a specific address anywhere in the US. There are a few limitations to the tool, but by and large it hits the mark in determining which areas have the potential to be great walkable communities where you don't need to own a car versus totally auto-dependent areas.

Now they have added a whole lot of new features, analysis and commentary to the site and it's worth a look.

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