lmao someone attacked the "street trees" sacred cow in NUMTOT and people are chimping out
ya but if most streets in ur city are wide enough for that u already fucked up
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for modern cities, yes.
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Difference between modern and older cities is wide streets are actually viable in modern ones, within reason
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why so?
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Wide streets impose burdens on overall mobility by spreading actual buildings further apart, defeating the purpose of a city--this is why they were uncommon before motor vehicles
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so...lots of narrow streets like in old tokyo are best?
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Or old Venice, or old Stockholm, or old Kashgar...
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Even in the USA you find this in the oldest parts of Boston, NYC, Philly, etc
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Hilariously, wide streets are an enlightenment idea based on aesthetics (and legibility/control for administrators), and started showing up about a century before cars made them really practical. Streetcars and street-running railways helped mitigate for a while
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it's insidious because they look nice on planning visualisations, photographs, etc. so you think you want them in your city but the actual experience of navigating them is dismal
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