Urban planning geekery ahead...
Los Angeles is supposed to be number 18 on a list of America's 125 best walking cities. Right -- freeways, lack of sidewalks, lousy air quality, insane drivers...tell me again how LA possibly beat Portland, OR in this ranking? Next they'll tell me LA has clean air, good microbreweries, and snow. (Uh, not that I miss the snow...)
Digging further, I notice how some of the criteria may have helped the land of freeways get up there on the list. Specifically: population density, number of exercise sessions per month, body mass index, annual rainfall, annual snowfall, and number of health and fitness clubs. The weather's nice and no one's fat -- we must be walking! Almost as relevant as the criterion "No. of APMA Podiatrists." I know I don't go out for a walk unless there's an APMA podiatrist in the neighborhood, just in case.
Los Angeles is supposed to be number 18 on a list of America's 125 best walking cities. Right -- freeways, lack of sidewalks, lousy air quality, insane drivers...tell me again how LA possibly beat Portland, OR in this ranking? Next they'll tell me LA has clean air, good microbreweries, and snow. (Uh, not that I miss the snow...)
Digging further, I notice how some of the criteria may have helped the land of freeways get up there on the list. Specifically: population density, number of exercise sessions per month, body mass index, annual rainfall, annual snowfall, and number of health and fitness clubs. The weather's nice and no one's fat -- we must be walking! Almost as relevant as the criterion "No. of APMA Podiatrists." I know I don't go out for a walk unless there's an APMA podiatrist in the neighborhood, just in case.
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