Enter an address at walkscore.com, and the site calculates a “walk score” between 1 and 100 based on information from Google Maps. Try it, it’s pretty cool!
Walkscore.com calculates how many different types of destinations are theoretically within walking distance, and then generates the score. You can see it tallying up results as it lists some [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Find your neighborhood’s “walk score”
July 30, 2007Casinos and Livable Communities: Middleborough’s choice
July 29, 2007I’m a firm believer that improved streetscapes, walkability and other such amenities don’t hinder economic development but actually improve local economies. After all, retail space is a lot more pricey along Newbury Street than suburban Route 9, and housing per square foot is way more expensive in Boston’s North End than most Rte. 495 exurbs. [...]
Mixed-use project aimed at nearby office workers, college in Atlanta suburb
July 23, 2007“About 30,000 people work along the Clifton Road corridor in central DeKalb County, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at property across from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sprawling headquarters, just north of Emory University,” the Atlanta Jounral-Constitution reports.
“An empty gravel lot sits next to a few aging, low-slung apartment buildings. A [...]
Framingham Cochituate Rail Trail meets on July 23
July 20, 2007The Framingham Cochituate Rail Trail Committee meets on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 7:30 pm in the Ward Room, Memorial Building, 150 Concord St., Framingham, MA
New on the blog: local meetings and events as posts
July 20, 2007I’ve been posting announcements meetings and events on my blog home page as a listing on the right column, but I think a lot of people miss them there, especially if they read the blog via RSS feed. So, I’m going to start publishing them as regular blog posts as well, and hope people find [...]
College lesson
July 18, 2007The University of Massachusetts Amherst campus serves around 25,000 students plus faculty and other staff, roughly the population of Sudbury and Wayland combined. Yet unlike those towns, the campus is designed with the expectation that many of its residents need to walk from place to place — from dorm to class to dining area to [...]
Shut off your TV. And your cell phone. And, yes, your computer. Just for a little while….
July 10, 2007“In a techno world, traditional camps flourish,” says a Boston Globe story last Sunday about the new allure of old-style summer camps.
“A number of rustic wilderness camps in New England are seeing a surge in their popularity, at a time when parents and educators are increasingly concerned that children do not spend enough time in [...]
What we can learn from Block Island, R.I.
July 3, 2007No, most communities can’t turn themselves into summer oceanside resorts! … and for many, it’s way too late to save a third of their land as preserved open space (or to prevent Anyplace, U.S.A. homogenization of chain stores and strip malls). However, we can still learn some valuable lessons about streetscape and planning from Block Island, [...]
