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Originally Posted by summersm343
If you're talking about number of walkable neighborhoods and towns... then yes, I probably is actually. LA is probably number 3.
If you're talking about cohesive walkability? Unbroken, interconnected walkability? Then no, it's not... but those are two completely different things in my opinion.
If you're talking about unbroken, interconnected walkability, then the rankings would probably be:
1. NYC
2. Chicago
3. Philadelphia
4. San Francisco
5. Boston
6. Washington DC
7. Los Angeles
8. Seattle
9. Miami
From there, it gets murkier...
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I think you could cut the list of after number 6. Is Miami considerably more walkable than, say, Portland or New Orleans? I wouldn't say so. You have the big urban 6, and then everything else. LA is a grey area as it has lots of walkable areas that are disconnected from each other, and lots of people do walk despite built conditions that make walking somewhat unpleasant.
I'm also surprised people claiming Pittsburgh as being some super walkable place. Not my experience with that city. The topography alone there makes walking a challenge.