Pedestrian-Friendly Urban Areas Drawing Families Back to the City
Frustrated with suburban isolation, resentful of constant driving everywhere in bad traffic and troubled by sedentary lifestyle health effects, more and more families are moving to town centers and older neighborhoods, where they "make sidewalks, bike trails, and commuter lines their preferred thoroughfares," writes Boston Globe correspondent Matt Viser, citing 2000 Census data showing that fewer than eight percent of residents in many Boston suburbs walk or use transit, while 45 percent of Bostonians do so at least five days a week.

Source: The Boston Globe