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This article comments on a report put out by the Brookings Institute about walkable cities in America.
Sacramento made the top 30.
We could do better though!
“For 50 years we had this collective amnesia about how to build great places,”
Levi
3 responses so far ↓
1 Steve // Dec 7, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Hmmm.. the fact that Atlanta is top 15 makes me question the validity of this report
Sacramento is far more walkable than the ATL.
2 Anon // Dec 18, 2007 at 9:22 am
Given that there is no evidence that more than 30 cities were considered, I don’t think we made the “top 30″… rather, we made it into the bottom 10% of all cities considered.
On that note, the report has a pretty flawed methodology, see this commentary for more:
http://www.cp-dr.com/node/1875
3 Jason // Dec 18, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Thanks for Anonymous tip! I read the commentary. These observations stood out:
“For the purposes of the report, a walkable urban place must be “regional serving,” rather than “local serving,” a distinction that I think misses the point of walkability.”
“The report lists five types of regional walkable urban places: downtown, downtown adjacent, suburban town center, suburban redevelopment, and greenfield (such as mixed-use “lifestyle centers”).
“According to this criteria, the Sacramento metropolitan area’s 2 million people are stuck with only one walkable place — downtown Sacramento. Phoenix’s 4 million people can choose from Tempe and “24th and Camelback.” Houston’s 5.5 million people have the lively Montrose district and two suburban lifestyle centers.”
It was good to see others out there chiming in about Sacramento’s walkability relative to other cities.
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