- Do you live in a walkable neighborhood or suburban sprawl? Explore more than 200 metro areas and see how your neighborhood ranks in today's Climate Lab column. Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO
- Most Americans say they prefer a bigger house in the suburbs vs. a smaller place in a walkable neighborhood. Yet sprawl is objectively bad in many ways, and there is an undersupply of walkable neighborhoods relative to demand. More analysis and walkability data in Climate Lab: wapo.st/41lOtkODec 7, 2024 14:12
- Many U.S. cities were built for cars. Zoomed out, car-oriented cities all look about the same on the map: dense downtowns surrounded by sprawl with arterial highways dissecting areas where walkable neighborhoods might otherwise be built. Gift link for more: wapo.st/41lOtkO
- The walkability data was provided by researchers at Sony CSL in Rome. Paper in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Their website to explore the data: whatif.sonycsl.it/15mincity/ The Pew data and my code for the survey chart is on Observable: observablehq.com/@climatelab/...
- Programming note: This will be my last Climate Lab column for The Washington Post. It's been a lot of fun. Now it's time for a new challenge. I'll share more about that in the coming weeks. wapo.st/41lOtkO
