Too true - and, increasingly, pedal bikes using the pavements.

Exactly. We’ve also come to the point where cyclists and the e-brigade who apply their brakes at pedestrian crossing stop lights are the dwindling minority.

Taiwan is anti-pedestrian. Scooters and more and more, cars park on or straddled across sidewalks. Plus, many of the porticoes have food stalls and seating, further adding to the ignominy of taking a constitutional.

Here's a photo from a trip last year; it's of Zhongli, close to TPE:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ac4b3d09e2.jpg
Somehow, most of the walking was safer in the street.

Most walkable:

Zurich
Lisbon
Boston
Vancouver
Montreal
Quebec
Osaka


Not walkable

Lots of US cities, at the forefront:
Houston

As somebody who will walk 20 miles across a city many times, and picks his trips based on the best running cities, my list is:

Best/Most Walkable/Runnable:
New York City (Manhattan especially)
Montreal
Philadelphia
Paris
London
Mexico City (very walkable, just watch your step on the broken sidewalks)
Venice (no cars!)
Hiroshima


Worst:
Ho Chi Minh City - by far the worst. Sidewalks are just other lanes of traffic.
Phenom Phen - there are no sidewalks
Lima - too spread out and temperature varies greatly. Inland its sunny and hot, along the ocean, freezing and foggy.

Walkable - Philadelphia, Oslo, Edinbourgh, Quebec

Paris
firenze
venezia
nuernberg alt stadt
dublin
koeln
dusseldorf
aachen

san Francisco
portland
manhattan

I have to say my city Sydney is very walkable and pretty.

Part of me wanted to chime in about Chinese cities being walkable, but like many other urban spots around the world now, they're blighted by fatalistic cyclists, e-bikes, and occasionally cars.

That's why Chongqing is neat ... it too, has sidewalks, but it's also quite hilly;)

It's almost like someone in a position of authority read my mind or the thread I started on this topic 4 years ago (link follows), but the bikes on sidewalks situation has improved A LOT since then. In fact, my own biking and walking etiquette has also changed in part as a result of being conditioned by a couple of citations and in part due to simple social pressure/awareness.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chin...lks-china.html

Copenhagen.

The whole city caters first and foremost to pedestrians and cyclists, then public transport and then other vehicles. Its relatively small size, particularly the central part, helps as well. As does its lack of hills.

Phoenix, Chicago, Tuscon and Washington DC all have great paved walking trails. Chicago along the lake where most of the lanes are separated for bike and pedestrian traffic.

I think it's really more about neighborhoods than cities. Even places like Houston and Atlanta have walkable neighborhoods.

Where are the walkable neighbourhoods in Houston?!?!

Damn near every European city I've visited is walkable. You kind of expect it in the big, glamorous capitals like Paris, London, etc. But where Europe really shines to North American eyes is with smaller cities and towns... they are usually walkable too which is a stark contrast from small North American cities that usually aren't.

Asian cities can be a bit of a mixed bag but Hong Kong is probably my very favourite place to explore on foot. Walking heaven. Most Chinese cities were walkable in the past (except Beijing as someone pointed out) but I haven't been there in a long time, I'm not sure if that has changed. Japan is less walkable than I expected when you get outside of the biggest few cities.

if a city only has walkable neighborhoods but isnt walkable as a city, it's an unwalkable city. ;) --> Houston.

Just because you might find a block or two in Houston that you can walk doesnt make Houston walkable. And that's ultimately the purpose of this thread, no? Yes, you can presumably find a walkable block in every city. But it's likely still an unwalkable city overall if to get from block A to block B you can't walk.