Measure for Measure: Boston-based Technical Toolkits for Measuring Walkability, Livability, Accessibility, and Environmental Justice
1. Measure for Measure: Boston-Based Technical Toolkits for Measuring Walkability, Livability, Accessibility and Environmental Justice Sean Pfalzer, Boston Region MPO Bruce Kaplan, Boston Region MPO Caroline Ducas, Parsons Brinckerhoff
2. Livability Indicators Database October 21, 2011 SNEAPA Conference Providence, RI Sean Pfalzer Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization
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5. Livable Places across Community Types Regional Urban Center Downtown Salem Inner Core Coolidge Corner, Brookline Maturing Suburb Minuteman Trail, Lexington Developing Suburb Commuter Rail Station, Ipswich
15. Indicators of Livability across Community Types Community Type Community Population Density Employment Density Sidewalk Coverage Bicycle Coverage Autos per HH Daily VMT per HH Inner Core Somerville 18,436 5,027 90% 3.5% 1.1 29 Melrose 5,690 1,349 70% 0.9% 1.5 44 Regional Urban Center Salem 5,091 2,290 77% 2.2% 1.3 36 Framingham 2,583 1,761 49% 3.0% 1.7 53 Maturing Suburb Stoneham 3,492 1,274 58% 1.7% 1.7 49 Burlington 2,115 3,181 22% 0.0% 2.1 64 Developing Suburb Hudson 1,703 862 45% 2.1% 2.0 66 Bellingham 859 294 32% 2.2% 2.2 80
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20. Measuring Environmental Justice October 21, 2011 SNEAPA Conference Providence, RI Bruce L. Kaplan, AICP Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization
Would be good for “Bicycle coverage” to have word(s) added that would refer to the type(s) of bicycle facilities being referred to. “Bicycle travel coverage (miles of facilities)”?
In presenting, make sure to make clear right away that each dot represents an individual Boston-region municipality (or neighborhood of the inner core?)
Before now you’ve been listing the four community types in the order that’s the reverse of this order.
Be sure to talk about why more cities near the beginning of the alphabet have been doing it.
I advocate lower-casing the names of the two types of TAZ, though this instance isn’t quite as bad as in the earlier instance of caps.
Capitalizing “Disability” and “Burden”: I strongly believe that this gives a very bad impression.
Change “to” to “of” I’ve e-mailed Karl about including CTPS.
Though I’m not familiar with the terms in the last two bullets, I highly doubt they should be capitalized. Like “intelligent transportation systems” shouldn’t be.