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Release Date: January 3, 2010 This content is archived.
An article in the Hartford Courant about the economic downturn having the greatest impact on cities whose economies are tied closely to General Motors and Ford, and the importance of walkability to community survivability, looks at research by Li Yin, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, that assessed communities according to a "walkability index."
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