Hypescore

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Tue, 07/29/2008 - 9:18pm

There's a lot of buzz over Walk Score , the site that rates neighborhood walkability.  Using a Google-sitic algorithm, it first tallies the restaurants, coffee shops and other destinations near a given address and then gives them a numerical weight based on their distance from the address.  Neighborhoods with interior retail tend to score high; neighborhoods without interior retail tend to score low. 

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Walk Score has been around a while, but it has gotten a lot of publicity recently over its "most walkable cities" list.  (As Forbes,...


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