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Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by jeffbee »

hirundo wrote: post #3

A 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…

I belong to three different community workshops: a membership-based wood shop, a motorcycle repair shop that offers both memberships and drop-in work, and an electronics shop for members. At each I enjoy access to far better tools than I ever had at home, especially the motorcycle shop where I would never have something like a crane, a parts washer, cylinder reamers, and tire changing machines. I feel like this model is greatly superior to garage DIY.

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by nyx-aiur »

moeris wrote: post #9

The renderings are almost entirely of white people. Are they not aiming for diversity, or is Arizona just very white?

The renderings are pretty diverse, even the 2d illustrations are diverse and the team behind it all is pretty diverse as well. Maybe open your eyes.

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by jedmeyers »

mrfusion wrote: post #6
hirundo wrote: post #3

A 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.

> should buy more

As if the resources are infinite.

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by talor_a »

moeris wrote: post #9

The renderings are almost entirely of white people. Are they not aiming for diversity, or is Arizona just very white?

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/tempecityarizon... tempe is majority white, but you're right about the renders

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by jedmeyers »

jeffbee wrote: post #11
hirundo wrote: post #3

A 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…

I belong to three different community workshops: a membership-based wood shop, a motorcycle repair shop that offers both memberships and drop-in work, and an electronics shop for members. At each I enjoy access to far better tools than I ever had at home, especially the motorcycle shop where I would never have something like a crane, a parts washer, cylinder reamers, and tire changing machines. I feel like this model…

Membership-based shops and clubs seem to work much better than 'everyone can come' scheme. Even at Google the maker spaces require an intro class, and an approval from one of the managing members. And one can make a case that a googler is expected to be a more responsible person than a random member of the elite no-car community.

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by jrsdav »

I live in a master planned community (Daybreak, Utah), and while you can definitely scoff at the building quality (state of things everywhere right now, it's all done fast and with low quality materials), it's been fantastic, especially during the pandemic.

The whole neighborhood is designed to be walkable, with parks, pools, trails, train stations, grocery stores and restaurants (added in the later phases, which are being developed right now) within 5 minutes of your doorstep.

It gets a bad rap from locals on the outside, but talk to the people living here (mostly expats from out of state) and nearly all of them say the same thing:

> "We love it here!"

and

> "Why aren't more communities built this way?"

I will say though, the US is poorly equipped for bicycle commuting. Even our neighborhood doesn't have many dedicated bike paths, opting instead to share the road with cars. Most diehard cyclists I know will tell you it's a matter of "when" not "if" you have a scary encounter with a driver. And with the amount of gigantic trucks on the roads out here that people use as their commuter cars, you can imagine these encounters don't typically end well.

Re: Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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Post by criddell »

mrfusion wrote: post #4

I 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.

One-bedrooms start at $1250 / month.

Can a community be designed so that the people working there can also afford to live there?

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