Not the way we are accustomed to building detached houses in USA--but ditch the yards and reduce the building footprint (keeping overall costs lower & making such houses more accessible for low-income buyers) and it's another story https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1011301084348858368 …
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Seattle does townhouses really well. In parts of the city, like Ballard & Fremont, they allow "four-pack" townhouses (2 in front, 2 in back) on 1-fam lots. They're not fully detached but construction costs are still low. They should just zone more land for stuff like this:pic.twitter.com/QBuiwQGh1D
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those are nice townhouses--but still, that's a lot of ground area spent on roads and yards compared to buildings...
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here's the thing tho: you don't need to ban cars to reclaim space!https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/1011318631077203970 …
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Ban is a strong word. But it looks like in the Japanese neighborhood the streets are absolutely not car-friendly .
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they're car friendly enough that most households own cars and use them regularly--it's not so much that streets in USA are "car friendly" as they are "pedestrian-hostile," whereas the Japanese streets here are pedestrian-and-car friendly
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