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Warning: if you live in one of these cities, chances are, it's too expensive to live within walking distance of work and so instead you'd have to take mass transit. See wikipedia for a list of U.S. cities with the most pedestrian commuters if mass transit doesn't sound appealing. This map shows only cities that appear on both the PBS map and the Cities map. So it's cities that PBS considers walkable that, as of the year 2000, had over 50,000 people with at least 1/5 commuting to work by something other than car. The darker the marker, the more non-car commuters. Three things to keep in mind though: first, this map excludes cities under 50k people; second, I have no idea what PBS's methodology is (for instance, I don't know why they didn't include Providence, RI or Ann Arbor, MI); and third, just because more than 80% of the population is driving to work doesn't mean that the city isn't walkable or that you couldn't walk or bike to work, especially if you were willing to live downtown (which might be perfectly walkable) and forego the bigger cheaper house in the suburbs. Weird that the list came out to exactly ten...