{"id":8342,"date":"2012-04-20T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:26","slug":"urban-planet-scoring-walk-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/20\/urban-planet-scoring-walk-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Scoring Walk Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=28364\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"walkscore\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/walkscore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2007, Walk Score is a popular website for evaluating the walkability of a particular address or neighbourhood. Embraced (for the most part) by both the planning and real estate communities, Walk Score provides a single number which translates a variety of complex factors into an easy to communicate assessment of walkability. But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/walking\/2012\/04\/walking_in_america_how_walk_score_puts_a_number_on_walkability_.html\">Slate <\/a>writer Tom Vanderbilt explores, while walkability may be desirable for home buyers, the housing stock which satisfies preferences for walking and single-family dwellings can be hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/walking\/2012\/04\/walking_in_america_how_walk_score_puts_a_number_on_walkability_.html\">Walk Score<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Launched in 2007, Walk Score is a popular website for evaluating the walkability of a particular address or neighbourhood. 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