At least in my experience most American parking garages are above ground (here in Springfield they are among the tallest buildings in the city lol), but I'm not so fussed about redeveloping *garages* as I am about redeveloping *surface lots.*https://twitter.com/TomGMS/status/1020312439085322240 …
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this might be pretty out there but maybe car congestion has made things like subways and buses less accessible & less efficient to the point that if you take cars out of the equation, transit services are able to actually adapt and become able to fulfill the same needs as cars.
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to an extent...but only because we're talking about NYC, I wouldn't say the same for somewhere like Tokyo
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yeah please take everything I say with the "I've only seen NYC and DC" pill lol. I'm curious though: which do you prefer: the kind of tighter, more packed NYC style of city or a more open, less vertical, sprawling kind?
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There are few if any cities like NYC out there--it doesn't really work as a "type" since it's too unusual. What I like is cities with buildings a lot closer together than they are in NYC, but also a lot smaller than they are in NYC.
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Hong Kong is probably the most similar in terms of "tons of tall buildings" but theirs have much smaller footprints and narrower streets between them
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hong kong's urban setup with seattle weather would be paradise itself
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probably true; here's HK and NY side by side at roughly the same scalepic.twitter.com/ROWg81e4BE
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moving away from downtowns--you can see (kinda) what I mean about building proximity here, comparing Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood with part of Queenspic.twitter.com/ghezovjbZj
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