Connecting the Dots Between Walkability and Financial Productivity

The findings of a data visualization that maps walkability and tax value onto Durham, North Carolina makes a strong case for the human scale.

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February 25, 2018, 9:00 AM PST

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell

"The most walkable places also tend to be the most financially productive," according to a recent data visualization project by Josh McCarty.

A video on the Strong Towns website features McCarty and Chuck Marohn discussing the results of McCarty's three-dimensional visualization showing that "took data from Walk Score — a site that calculates the walk-friendliness of locations all over the world — and combined it with data on tax value per acre in Durham, NC."

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