Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being unwalkable.
Mountain courses also suffer from unwalkability, hard-to-read greens, and cold mountain shadows.
1994, John Garrity, “More Bad Advice from Good Architects . . .”, in America’s Worst Golf Courses: A Collection of Courses Not Up to Par, New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 902 more examples
They excoriated some of the absurdities of suburban design such as the unwalkability of suburban neighborhoods and the increasing distances between schools, shopping areas, and housing.
2007, Carl Abbott, “Planning Compact Cities”, in Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present (The American History Series), 2nd edition, Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., →ISBN, chapter 4 (Prosperity and Poverty), page 170Whereas Atlanta is infamous for its unwalkability, Portland, Oregon, the other extreme, has some sixteen pedestrian districts where the street design, sidewalks, and traffic laws give pedestrians priority.
2009, James Eggert, “What’s Wrong with Capitalism?”, in Meadowlark Economics: Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, part I (Meadowlark Values), page 12
Cite this entry
unwalkability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwalkability
“unwalkability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwalkability. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unwalkability,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwalkability.
Source: unwalkability on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.