April 2007
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San Diego Named 7th Top Walking City
The Best Walking Cities of 2007
by The Editors of Prevention
See if your city made the top 100 list of the best places to get a heart-pumping workout Walking is the most popular type of exercise so this year we focused of our Best Walking Cities list on ideal locations to head out for a heart-pumping walking workout. Tops on the list of what makes a place fitness walker friendly are safe streets, beautiful places to walk, mild weather, and good air quality. In addition to crunching the numbers, Prevention and the American Podiatric Medical Association consulted with Dan Burden, who has personally evaluated walking conditions in more than 200 cities as the executive director of Walkable Communities Inc. Here are some of the specific criteria we used to create the list. Each criteria was weighted as heavy, medium or light in terms of importance. " % of pop that walks for exercise
" Use of mass transit
" Parks per square mile
" Points of interest per squre mile
" Avg winter/summer temperatures
" % of athletic shoe buyers Click here for full list of named cities.
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