Jakarta, the City Where Nobody Wants to Walk

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*In a recent study by researchers at Stanford University, Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous nation, came in last among 46 countries and territories for the number of walking steps its citizens take, averaging only 3,513 a day.

By comparison, Hong Kong was first with 6,880, and China second with 6,189. Ukraine, Japan and Russia rounded out the top five. The study tracked 717,000 people in 111 countries, who voluntarily monitored 68 million days of activity using an app on their smartphones and watch devices that was designed by Stanford researchers — the largest such tracking study ever, the researchers said. Each place needed to have at least 1,000 participants to be ranked in the report.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/jakarta-walking-study-sidewalks.html?

[Me.]

1. New York leads the nation for most steps a day...even in the winter

2-5 miles a day

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2986400/New-York-leads-nation-steps-day-winter.html#ixzz4qPs2dhQd
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[elleng]

3. Good to hear,

and resurrects memories of Dad, who walked every day roundtrip between W. 40th St. and Penn. Station (through Macy's, checking the deli department!)

[Warpy]

2. China has been doing planning to make their cities more walkable

by encouraging things that send planners here into apoplexy, like food stalls and small shops at street level. When people can go down from a high floor in a tower block and find a street full of various amenities, they will walk. If the amenities aren't there, it is a moonscape of buildings and streets, no people to be seen.

They also finally caught a clue in Boston and started to insist on street level shops and restaurants in all new high rise construction. As a result, Boston is one of the most walkable cities in the country, albeit a bit grim in February.