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  • WalkScore's New Rankings for Cities

    Jul 20, 2011
    Author: Eric de Place

    Walkscore updated their rankings.

    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...
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  • Verified: More Parking Puts More Cars on the Road

    Jan 28, 2021
    Author: Michael Andersen
    photo of parking lot at affordable housing development in Hillsboro, OR

    The Orchards at Orenco development, an affordable housing project next to a light-rail stop in Hillsboro, Ore., required a years-long campaign to persuade the city to slightly reduce the number of parking spaces it would be required to build. The lot is rarely full today. Sightline photo by Michael Andersen.

    Do cities create greener lifestyles? Or do they just enable them? It’s very, very, very clear that people who live closer to other people drive less. But how much of this is due to the fact that people who were already predisposed to driving less—those of us who don’t particularly enjoy driving, for example—are deliberately living where parking is scarce and buses are frequent? A forthcoming academic paper finally begins...
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  • To Build 1,764 New Homes This Year, Seattle Demolished… Just 21

    Aug 17, 2016
    Author: Margaret Morales

    Seattle Apartment by Tom Lianza used under CC BY 2.0

    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 on the street. The displacement caused by demolitions of low-cost housing can be devastating to poorer families and their communities, and urban advocates and policymakers widely agree that minimizing displacement is a critical public policy goal. In the case of...
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  • Weekend Reading 7/1/16

    Jul 1, 2016
    Author: Keiko Budech

    Solar by Maryland GovPics used under CC BY 2.0

    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 how to interpret that press is another matter. Take for instance this recent article in the Walrus which blamed wealthy investors from mainland China for city’s soaring housing prices. These investors accomplish this, so Kerry Gold, the article’s author, argues,...
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  • Accomplishments

    Jun 10, 2015
    Author: Pivot
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  • A New Measure of Food Deserts, Part 2

    Mar 31, 2014
    Author: Jennifer Langston
    food deserts, grocery store

    Grocery Outlet repalces liquor store by litlnemo, flickr used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

    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 the University of Washington’s Center for Public Health Nutrition, where researchers have lately been looking at whether proximity to a grocery store actually influences people’s diet and health. What they’re finding, at least in King County, is that it doesn’t...
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  • A New Measure of Food Deserts

    Mar 27, 2014
    Author: Clark Williams-Derry
    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 a grocery store just doesn’t matter much: you can always drive a bit and stock up with a big load of groceries! But if you don’t have a car, fresh, healthy food is often simply out of reach. Taking a...
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  • Transit Score: Cascadia Smackdown

    Mar 11, 2014
    Author: Clark Williams-Derry

    Canadian Transit Scores by Walk Score (Used with permission)

    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, eh? But what’s even better: when you combine Canada and the US, Vancouver comes in at number 6! The only US cities with a better Transit Score than Vancouver are New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Looking more narrowly within...
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  • Transit Score: Buses Matter

    Jan 28, 2014
    Author: Clark Williams-Derry

    King County Metro, facebook

    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...
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  • Walk Score Scores Again

    Nov 7, 2013
    Author: Clark Williams-Derry
    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. The news for the Northwest: Seattle clocks in as the 8th most walkable city in the US, while Vancouver ranks as the 4th most walkable city in all of North America, trailing only New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Yay!...
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