20 ICLEI U.S.A. Members ranked for walkability

16-01-08

A national trend in the U.S.A. toward more walkable communities has resulted in a ranking of the country’s 30 biggest metropolitan areas by the national think-tank, the Brookings Institution. These 30 biggest metropolitan areas were ranked according to the number of walkable urban places relative to the area’s population. The report set out to quantify the walkability trend by counting the number of ‘regional-serving walkable urban places’ in each of the 30 biggest metropolitan areas in the country. ‘Regional-serving’ means the location is not just a suburban community, but has jobs, retail or cultural institutions that bring in people who don’t live there. The rankings are as follows, with the names of ICLEI Members appearing in bold.

Washington, D.C.
Boston, Massachusetts
San Francisco, California
Denver, Colorado
Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
Chicago, Illinois
Miami, Florida
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
San Diego, California
Los Angeles, California
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Detroit, Michigan
Columbus, Ohio
Las Vegas, Nevada
Houston, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Kansas City, Missouri
Orlando, Florida
Dallas, Texas
Phoenix, Arizona
Sacramento, California
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Tampa, Florida

For more information on walking urbanism from the Brookings Institution, please click here. (www.brookings.edu/topics/walkable-urbanism.aspx) Source: “D.C. the top city in walkability; Tampa, not so much”, Houston Chronicle, 4 December 2007.