According to a joint study by Prevention magazine and the American Podiatric Medical Association, more Cambridge residents walk to work than in any other city in the US.

Cambridge also has more parks per square mile than any other city! Our famous historic squares (Central, Kendall, Harvard, Porter, Inman, Lechmere) and our (debatable) traffic calming program (designed for pedestrians rather than motorists) contributed to this.

This year Prevention and the APMA evaluated more than 500 U.S. cities on 14 walking criteria, including the percentage of adults who walk to work, number of parks per square mile, use of mass transit, and percentage of adults who walk for fitness.

This year they also named the best walking city in each state's ten most populated cities.

Prevention and the APMA measure the walkability of America’s cities each year.

Walking is the most popular form of exercise; 87.5 percent of Americans walk for fitness.

New York was ranked second, and Ann Arbor, Michigan third. (The worst were Oklahoma City, North Las Vegas, and Gadsden, AL.)

10 Best U.S. Walking Cities of 2008
1. Cambridge, MA
2. New York, N.Y.
3. Ann Arbor, Mich.
4. Chicago, Ill.
5. Washington, D.C.
6. San Francisco, CA
7. Honolulu, HI
8. Trenton, N.J.
9. Boston, MA
10. Cincinnati, OH