About Us
About Us
Our Mission
To enhance our society and planet's health, our reports display how many commonly-used services are within short walking distance of a given address — in a standardized, comparative format — incentivizing and promoting development that allows more residents to conveniently live without owning cars.
What We Do
Urban Foot Notes is a Tennessee nonprofit corporation providing research and data-analysis services for the built environment. Our researchers investigate the area around an address and score its access to 74 everyday services (plus 5 custom), and we deliver the findings electronically as a standardized, address-level walkability report. Reports are directly comparable across addresses, helping agents, buyers, renters, and planners make better decisions. Our team has years of experience providing data-analysis solutions for societal, environmental, and economic challenges.
Our goal: reduce sprawl and traffic by supporting denser, mixed-use development. When daily needs are a short walk away, people spend less on transport and can invest more in better housing.
Our service benefits . . .
- More buyers and renters can evaluate each address
- Those not needing a car can spend more on housing
- Independent evaluation brings credibility
- Increased certainty comforts investors
- Gaps in development types are made obvious
- Reports become additional sales material
Our service benefits . . .
Real Estate Professionals
- More buyers and renters can evaluate each address
- Those not needing a car can spend more on housing
- Independent evaluation brings credibility
- Increased certainty comforts investors
- Gaps in development types are made obvious
- Reports become additional sales material
Local Residents
- Independent evaluation brings more certainty
- Standardized format allows easier comparison
- Less need for cars boosts options
- Scores for services availability and walkability save time
City Planners
- Make more neighborhood informed choices
- Reduce traffic
- Resolve conflicts with data
- Highlight pedestrian access
- Put the focus on the community
Government Employees
- Less traffic possible
- Less contention likely
- Less pollution possible
- Easier comparisons with other places
Company History
Urban Foot Notes emerged from research at Urban Cruise Ship on cities and interviews with real estate industry professionals and potential users.
We saw a need for walkability and area reports that utilized real researchers instead of just relying on big data. What initially involved John, Jye and Roseanne became a nearly three-and-a-half-year, multiple-stage project involving all seven team members. We have worked hard to refine our service with extensive research.
We hope our reports help as many people as possible live more convenient and healthy lives, and reduce their polluting, time-consuming dependence on cars.