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How would you propose convincing people to live four inches from their neighbor? This seems like somewhat of a challenging sale. I cannot speak for everyone, but I have lived this way and it is not good.
Put the well paying jobs in the city? Money tends to be pretty persuasive
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Part of the problem is you can’t just convert an area to a pedestrian area as people still need to be able to get there. You need to construct low cost parking garages around the area so people can still get there.
Comments like this make me appreciate living in a city that has a pretty comprehensive public transport coverage, and where bicycling is at least tolerable. The city you describe seems to be only usable by car.
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If you want to make pedestrians safer, you can do that without having to make driving miserable, by building elevated pedestrian walkways.
Elevated pedestrian walkways are miserable for people walking. You seem pretty deeply carbrained.
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How would you propose convincing people to live four inches from their neighbor? This seems like somewhat of a challenging sale. I cannot speak for everyone, but I have lived this way and it is not good.
Don't build with shitty materials. There are ways to sound proof apartments to the degree that it's a non issue. Adding a facility in the vicinity for parties solves the issue of neighbours wanting to blast loud music (unless they are really obnoxious neighbours but in that case building management can take care of that).
I live car-free in NYC. A large appeal of NYC to me was not having to park. I don't ~mind~ driving, but I absolutely hated having to deal with finding parking when I lived in other cities. Parking generally makes me feel stressed (competition for free spots), or makes me pay (using something like SpotHero makes it easy to find a spot, but costs me). It's not even just major cities either- I'm frequently in a college…
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Comments like this make me appreciate living in a city that has a pretty comprehensive public transport coverage, and where bicycling is at least tolerable. The city you describe seems to be only usable by car.
Many cities in the US are only usable by car. You can’t just leap from a car-based city to a non-car-based city, you have to provide transitionary options (also even car-optional cities still have parking garages).
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Just out of curiosity - how big of an issue is parking in rural US?
It's an issue when it takes 10m to walk to the Walmart entrance from the parking lot. (This is intended as humor)
>You could imagine a world in which streets were pedestrianized and where we planted trees and gardens and in what is currently space reserved for parking, and closed streets, outside schools, so kids can have places to play. I would love to see a LOT more of this in urban centers. I live in a college town that is about the same size as Iowa City. Iowa City has taken the step of closing off their downtown and making…
Part of the problem is you can’t just convert an area to a pedestrian area as people still need to be able to get there. You need to construct low cost parking garages around the area so people can still get there.
I know this is US-by-default site but does parking really shape everything around us (most of the humanity)? What about South America or Africa? From my experience in living in Asia, USA and Europe, it might only be applicable to USA.
Melbourne seems to be better at ~12%, but it's still the third largest land use category despite long-standing efforts to deprioritize cars.
If anything, "shapes everything around us" might be understating the reality.
[1] https://www.itdp.org/2017/07/26/mexico-city-became-leader-pa...
[2] https://www.itdp.org/2019/01/31/rio-joins-parking-reform-lea...