{"id":1629,"date":"2007-03-11T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2007-03-11T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T00:18:27","slug":"madison-wisconsin-named-most-walkable-us-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/11\/madison-wisconsin-named-most-walkable-us-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison, Wisconsin named most walkable US city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/144\/401033361_d1274e15a7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Madison, Wisconsin was named the most walkable city in the US in a recent ranking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prevention.com\/article\/0,5778,s1-2-92-752-7792-6,00.html\">walkability of the largest 100 US cities<\/a>, with Austin, Texas and San Francisco close behind. Bringing up the rear of least walkable cities were places such as Miami and  Newark.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking was established by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apma.org\/s_apma\/sec.asp?CID=251&#038;DID=16779\">American Podiatric Medical Association<\/a> and  healthy-lifestyle magazine <em>Prevention<\/em>, in consultation with walkability guru Dan Burden. The magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prevention.com\/article\/0,5778,s1-2-92-752-7792-1,00.html\">describes some of the criteria used<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tops on the list of what makes a place fitness walker friendly are safe streets, beautiful places to walk, mild weather, and good air quality. Specific criteria included:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&bull; % of population that walks for exercise<br \/>\n&bull; Use of mass transit<br \/>\n&bull; Parks per square mile<br \/>\n&bull; Points of interest per square mile<br \/>\n&bull; Average winter\/summer temperatures<br \/>\n&bull; % of athletic shoe buyers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The athletic shoe buyers one is ingenious, although it does show the survey&#8217;s bias towards fitness walking rather than, say, commuting. Still, these kinds of studies are really useful for getting people to think about what makes a good city to walk in.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/03\/08\/walkable.cities.ap\/index.html\">CNN story about this survey<\/a> describes some of the measures taken by Madison to improve its walkability:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adopting a walker-friendly plan 10 years ago was a major plus for Madison, said Prevention magazine&#8217;s deputy editor Karyn Repinski. That plan focused on maintaining and improving the city&#8217;s walkability and requires that when roads are redeveloped, they should accommodate not just cars, but bikes and pedestrians, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This road redevelopment policy is something that pedestrian and cycling activists are trying to establish in Toronto &#8212; it&#8217;s good to be able to point to a city where this policy has been successfully implemented.<\/p>\n<p>(Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=976\">Spacing Wire photo-tour<\/a> of Madison from last July)<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/85625337@N00\/\">mazda6<\/a> on Flickr <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, Wisconsin was named the most walkable city in the US in a recent ranking of the walkability of the largest 100 US cities, with Austin, Texas and San Francisco close behind. Bringing up the rear of least walkable cities were places such as Miami and Newark. The ranking was established by the American Podiatric<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/11\/madison-wisconsin-named-most-walkable-us-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Madison, Wisconsin named most walkable US city&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4911,1394,4912,4915,4914,4913,2810,1150,4910,21,4916,4917,576,1224,19,506,2813],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking","tag-american-podiatric-medical-association","tag-austin","tag-dan-burden","tag-deputy-editor","tag-healthy-lifestyle-magazine","tag-karyn-repinski","tag-madison","tag-miami","tag-newark","tag-other-cities","tag-place-fitness-walker","tag-prevention","tag-san-francisco","tag-texas","tag-toronto","tag-united-states","tag-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madison, Wisconsin named most walkable US city - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/11\/madison-wisconsin-named-most-walkable-us-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madison, Wisconsin named most walkable US city - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madison, Wisconsin was named the most walkable city in the US in a recent ranking of the walkability of the largest 100 US cities, with Austin, Texas and San Francisco close behind. 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