Welcome to The Walkability Wiki

This is the website for The Walkability Wiki, a crowd-sourced cookbook of qualitative & quantitative methods for measuring pedestrian experience! Visit the GitHub repository for this site.

The content for this guide has been contributed by multiple people, the full list of which can be viewed here. If you are someone who studies urban development, or have engaged with studying walkability in any measure, we’d love to have you here too.

Contribution guidelines are available here and can be submitted via pull requests to our main repository.

Outline

This book has been divided into the following categories to make it easier to get through:

Getting Started

This section provides an overview of the book, outlining its purpose, scope, and softwares used.

Overview of Methods

This section includes guidance on sourcing data for street and urban environment assessments, recipes for processing and analyzing data, creating maps, and running numbers.

Qualitative Methods

This section offers tips for conducting interviews, designing street audits, framing questions to elicit valuable information, and creating participatory activities.

Bridging the Gap

This section explains how to combine qualitative and quantitative methods to fill in gaps, derive insights, and present results for analysis.

Case Studies

This section features real-life examples of street audits in various contexts and locations, detailing the tools used and the analysis methods employed.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.