The following is a selection of urban planning and public health research that uses Walk Score data on walkability, public transit accessibility, and road connectivity.

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• Duncan, Dustin T., Jared Aldstadt, John Whalen, Steven J. Melly, and Steve L. Gortmaker, 2011. Validation of Walk Score® for Estimating Neighborhood Walkability: An Analysis of Four US Metropolitan Areas International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 8, No. 11.
• Stephanie Y. Rauterkus, Grant I. Thrall, and Eric Hangen, 2010. Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default Journal of Sustainable Real Estate (JOSRE), Volume 2, No. 1.
• El-Geneidy, Ahmed M., Manaugh, Kevin. 2010. Validating walkability indices: How do different households respond to the walkability of their neighbourhood? Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting.
• Rauterkus, Stephanie Y., Grant I. Thrall, and Eric Hangen. 2010. Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default. Journal of Sustainable Real Estate.
• Rogers, Shannon H., John M. Halstead, Kevin H. Gardner and Cynthia H. Carlson. 2010. Examining Walkability and Social Capital as Indicators of Quality of Life at the Municipal and Neighborhood Scales. Applied Research Quality Life.
• Armstrong, Price, and Jessica Greene. 2009. Sustainability Focused Data Analysis: To what extent do walkability, crime and neighborhood predict housing prices? Sustainable Cities Initiative, University of Oregon.
• Brewster, Mark, David Hurtado, Sara Olson, and Jessica Yen. 2009. Walkscore.com: A New Methodology to Explore Associations between Neighborhood Resources, Race and Health. Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
• Cortright, Joe. 2009. Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Home Values in U.S. Cities. CEOs for Cities.
• Manaugh, Kevin, and Ahmed M El-Geneidy. 2010. Examining the response of varying households to the walkability of their neighborhoods for non-work trip purposes. In 51st ACSP Conference.
• Paull, Evans. 2009. The Environmental and Energy Conservation Benefits of the Maryland Historic Tax Credit Program. Northeast-Midwest Institute.
• Schuchter, Joseph, John Besl, and Lisa Simpson. 2010. Vision 2015: Child Health in Northern Kentucky. Child Policy Research Center.
• Pivo, Gary, and Jeffrey D. Fisher. 2010. The Walkability Premium in Commerical Real Estate Investments.
• Carr, Lucas J., Shira I. Dunsiger, and Bess H. Marcus. 2010. Validation of Walkscore for Estimating Access to Urban Amenities. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
• Richardson, Katherine E. 2009. What Lures and Retains the International Creative-Class Family?: A Case Study of the Family Unit Found in Vancouver’s Biotechnology Sector. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society 7
• Jones, Lindsey Irene. 2010. Investigating Neighborhood Walkability and its Association with Physical Activity Levels and Body Composition of a Sample of Maryland Adolescent Girls, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park.

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• Litman, Todd. 2009. Sustainable Transportation Indicator Data Quality and Availability. Victoria Policy Institute.
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• Matthews, Shirley Jane. 2008. A Search for Creative Class Trail User Experience Along the Katy Trail, Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington.
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• Taitian, Peter A., G. Thomas Kingsley, Margery Austin Turner, Jennifer Comey, and Randy Rosso. 2008. State of Washington, D.C.’s Neighborhoods. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute.
• The Market for Downtowns and Walkable Neighborhoods: The Rise of the Boutique City. 2010. Renaissance Downtowns LLC.
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• Destination 2030 Update. 2007. Seattle: Puget Sound Regional Council.
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• Transit Supportive Development. (No date given.) Mid-America Regional Council.
• Transit Supportive Land Use Planning Guide. 1992. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
• Turner, Shawn, Gordon Shunk, and Aaron Hottenstein. 1998. Development of a Methodology to Estimate Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel Demand. College Station: Texas Transportation Institute.