Reflection Paper On The Neighborhood

The neighborhood that I will be writing about is around the HiPark Residence Hotel in Nice, France. I am going to be rating the walk, bike, and transit scores based from walkscore.com and Google maps. I will also be disclosing information about the area’s walkability from The Heart Foundation’s Neighborhood Walkability Checklist and the built environment correlates of physical activity from the Exercise Psychology textbook. The walkability score for the HiPark Residence Hotel in Nice, France is 98. It is close to restaurants, stores (food and retail), and transit stations. About a ten-minute walk down the street is a town square-like setup which features restaurants, shops, and convenience stores with plenty of sidewalk space for walkers and bikers. A few more feet away from the square is the ocean promenade lined with even more hotels and small vendors selling food. Walkscore.com showed a majority of these on the map and I found more when I went on Google Maps. The transit score around the HiPark Residence was not available due to France being an unsupported country on walkscore.com. Instead I used Google Maps which reported that there was one bus station and nine train stations near the hotel. The train was more accessible since the station was a block away from where I was staying. In addition to my own observations with the information from Google Maps, I would rate the transit score around the HiPark Residence is excellent transit at a score of 85. The bike