Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
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Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#2A couple of past threads:
Culdesac: Building car-free neighborhoods from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600773 - Nov 2019 (9 comments)
Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21574850 - Nov 2019 (136 comments)
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#3A community "maker space" would require careful curation of community members to be viable. Even if everyone were honest and conscientious. It's so hard to find the right tool or material at the right time in my own shop, it would be many times worse if I shared the shop with the neighborhood. Sure it's a long, hard, expensive trudge to accumulate your own tools, but at least it gives you a good chance of having the use of them when you need them.
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#4I hope this is the future of community design. We need to get people back together. I think most of our problems are that we only interact on the internet.
My mom thought republicans were the devil until a guy with a trump flag helped her change a tire.
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#5I live about 10 min drive from there, and I honestly don't see how it's going to work. Yes it is right on the lightrail line, but otherwise it's not a very walkable area. I guess they are hoping to lock everyone into just doing most of their eating and shopping onsite. Is that actually desirable?
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#6A community "maker space" would require careful curation of community members to be viable. Even if everyone were honest and conscientious. It's so hard to find the right tool or material at the right time in my own shop, it would be many times worse if I shared the shop with the neighborhood. Sure it's a long, hard, expensive trudge to accumulate your own tools, but at least it gives you a good chance of having the…
Seems like if it’s a problem they should buy more of the in demand tools.
My makerspace also put its popular tools under webcam so you could check if it’s in use before heading out.
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#7360 view feels like the inside of the 1 Hacker Way.
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#8I live in the Phoenix area and put down a small initial deposit (something like $100) for Culdesac: while I primarily work from home, my partner still works at multiple sites west of downtown Phoenix, which makes Culdesac impractical, even though I love the idea of it. Right now, Phoenix's light rail system runs east-west between downtown Phoenix and Tempe, and north-south from downtown to uptown, but none of those locations are near the important job sites.
Other background on Culdesac: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-p...
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#9The renderings are almost entirely of white people. Are they not aiming for diversity, or is Arizona just very white?
Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
#10A community "maker space" would require careful curation of community members to be viable. Even if everyone were honest and conscientious. It's so hard to find the right tool or material at the right time in my own shop, it would be many times worse if I shared the shop with the neighborhood. Sure it's a long, hard, expensive trudge to accumulate your own tools, but at least it gives you a good chance of having the…
Have you ever been to a community maker space? Your Comment reads a bit like you're treating this as a hypothetical. The ones I've seen usually have a mix of people owning (and stashing in boxes or such) their own tools & materials, as well as shared stuff that is usually in okay order depending on the place & people. Especially for things like cnc machines though there's no sane way to own these individually if you're not a power user.