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About A Story on Every Street: Exploring Walkability in Boston
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for HUB XC420: A Story on Every Street: Exploring Walkability in Boston.
National Walkability Index (EPA)
Changing Faces of Greater Boston (Boston Indicators)
Featured Article on Walkability in Boston
- Validation of Walk Scores and Transit Scores for estimating neighborhood walkability and transit availability: a small-area analysis (Springer) We investigated the validity of Walk Scores and Transit Scores from the Walk Score website using several objective geographic information systems (GIS) measures of neighborhood walkabiltiy and transit availability based on 400- and 800-m street network buffers. Address data come from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey Geospatial Dataset, a school-based sample of public high school students in Boston, MA with complete residential address information (n = 1,292). GIS data were used to create multiple objective measures of neighborhood walkability and transit availability.
