Walk Score has already done it for U.S. cities – and now has come to Canada: they’ve rated the most walkable cities in the country.
Vancouver is No. 1 because we look like this:
Canada’s Top 10 Most Walkable Large Cities
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Apples to orange comparison here. You have cities like Ottawa (which has a HUGE rural area, along with suburbs), Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, all megacities… Vancouver is the only city on that list that doesn’t have 70’s suburbs (because they are in Surrey and Richmond and Langley and Coquitlam).
I think the main benefit of this exercise is the maps.
@Chris B
Agreed. Walkscore only rates the city itself, not the region. That’s what puts Miami more walkable than Toronto. But it’s difficult to rate regions; what would you include in New York? and should Mississauga be part of “Toronto”?
They also have a list of the Top 30 most walkable neighbourhoods, which isn’t as susceptible to suburb averaging.
http://blog.walkscore.com/2013/01/canada-walkers-paradiseneighborhoods/
In the top 30:
15 in Toronto
4 in Calgary
3 in Victoria
3 in Vancouver
2 in Montreal
1 in Quebec City, Saskatoon, and Edmonton