Jakarta, the City Where Nobody Wants to Walk

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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.