![]() With the roads filled up with water, you can't even see what's under your feet. "During rainy season, the road beside our house gets hazardous. The sewage drains are often uncovered or unstable. Inaccessible pavements force pedestrians like Efti to use main roads for walking and cause numerous accidents each year.Īnother massive issue regarding the walkability in Dhaka is water congestion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.If you do find a free section of pavement, chances are it'd be occupied by construction waste, litter, roadside hawkers or stalls. On Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 6:23 am and is filed under Data source, Design, General, Geography, Google Map Mashup, Interactive, Mapping, Mashup, Promote. Tags: adams morgan, alpert, baltimore, dc, downtwon, dupont, kansas city, logan, long beach, portland, san francisco, seattle, walk score We wanted to let users say a neighborhood, but it was nearly impossible to get a decent list of neighborhoods for even major cities nationwide. I tried once in a pervious job, when building a service to find restaurants over the phone. Getting decent neighborhood boundaries is remarkably difficult, as there are no official lists of neighborhoods (except in a few cities, like Chicago). And the entire area east of the river, except Deanwood, is “Anacostia”. Likewise, the area labeled Takoma Park is west of Georgia Avenue, making it more Shepherd Park, with the actual Takoma area in Fort Totten-Upper Northeast. I’d quibble with the neighborhood breakdowns, especially outside the center they label Crestwood and 16th Street Heights as “Petworth”, and Petworth (plus Park View and others) are lumped in with CUA-Brookland. The algorithm still is far from perfect, but it does a pretty good job of quantifying what areas are more or less walkable. We don’t do better in the overall rankings (just above Long Beach and Los Angeles) because of large swaths of unwalkability around the perimeter of the city, especially in Northeast and east of the river. To a lesser extent, so are the main retail concentrations elsewhere, like Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues, Takoma, and Brookland. The map shows what we intuitively know: the row house part of the city is very walkable. Vernon Square, Adams Morgan, Kalorama, Friendship Heights, and Georgetown. Ten DC neighborhoods break a 90 and win the label “walkers’ paradises”: Dupont, Logan, Downtown, U Street, Foggy Bottom, Mt. Washington, DC ranks 7th (between Seattle and… Long Beach?!?!) Baltimore is #12.ĭupont Circle, our highest scoring neighborhood, is 17th among all neighborhoods, though 12 of the higher ranking ones are all in Manhattan (the others are San Francisco’s Financial District and Chinatown, Portland’s streetcar-developed Pearl District, and Old Westport, Kansas City. Walk Score just launched walkability maps and rankings for the 40 largest U.S. 70 Dupont Circle, Logan Circle, DowntownĨ Long Beach 69 Downtown, Belmont Shore, Belmont Heightsĩ Los Angeles 67 Mid City West, Downtown, Hollywoodġ0 Portland 66 Pearl District, Old Town-Chinatown, Downtownġ1 Denver 66 Lodo, Golden Triangle, Capitol Hillġ2 Baltimore 65 Federal Hill, Fells Point, Inner Harborġ3 Milwaukee 62 Historic Third Ward, Lower East Side, Northpointġ4 Cleveland 60 Downtown, Ohio City-West Side, Detroit Shorewayġ5 Louisville 58 Central Business District, Limerick, Phoenix Hillġ6 San Diego 56 Core, Horton Plaza, Cortez Hillġ7 San Jose 55 Buena Vista, Burbank, Rose Gardenġ8 Las Vegas 55 Meadows Village, Downtown, Rancho Charlestonġ9 Fresno 54 Central, Fresno-High, HooverĢ0 Sacramento 54 Richmond Grove, Downtown, Midtown ![]() Methodology.ġ San Francisco 86 Chinatown, Financial District, DowntownĢ New York 83 Tribeca, Little Italy, Sohoģ Boston 79 Back Bay-Beacon Hill, South End, Fenway-KenmoreĤ Chicago 76 Loop, Near North Side, Lincoln Parkĥ Philadelphia 74 City Center East, City Center West, RiverfrontĦ Seattle 72 Pioneer Square, Downtown, First Hillħ Washington D.C. What makes a city walkable? See here for side-by-side comparisons. ![]() cities to help you find a walkable place to live. Walk Score ranks 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. Quick links to major metros: ( Find by address) Republished from David Alpert’s blog ( original post): ![]()
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