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    1. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      oh yeah, surface lots can go straight to heck. I guess my limited experience in nyc was most of the garages went down pretty far and I seem to remember them having other stuff above them though that second part could be totally false in which case...oh just tear them all down lol

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @TomGMS

      ya NYC doesn't strike me as the worst offender for wasting space on parking--at least where garages are concerned. But on-street parking is fucking insane in a city that busy, and should mostly be abolished

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    3. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      oh yea that's a whole nother issue. honestly they should just get rid of all roads into the city and convert the roads on bridges to rail housings...then just have a parking garage by the bridges for ppl who are travelling in, before the state rail system is fully implemented

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @TomGMS

      nooooo having the roads is fine, it's just ludicrous to have people ducking in and out of traffic to park on-street maybe some roads get closed to vehicle traffic...but that would be so pedestrians could use! also maybe close some roads to private vehicles, make bus-only

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    5. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      I just think it would be cool to have a city that you can only enter through a train lol...but you're quite right that you'd obviously want other forms of transit available. the train only thing is probably only possible in star wars, where all the trains just float, so go figure

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @TomGMS

      one of my chief problems w the car dependence thing is that you only can use ONE mode of travel no matter what kind of trip you're making (and God help u if u don't have a car); I don't want to repeat the mistake with another mode (except--MAYBE--walking)

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    7. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      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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    8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @TomGMS

      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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    9. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      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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    10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @TomGMS

      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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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
      Replying to @380kmh @TomGMS

      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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        2.  🧟‍♂️ 🕷️ 🕸️𝔎𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔫 🧛‍♂️ 🦇 🥀‏ @kev_jg Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @TomGMS

          hong kong's urban setup with seattle weather would be paradise itself

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @kev_jg @TomGMS

          probably true; here's HK and NY side by side at roughly the same scalepic.twitter.com/ROWg81e4BE

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @kev_jg @TomGMS

          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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        5. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @kev_jg

          the symmetry of Queens is almost offensive...is part of the reason for the spacing because people want to have mini-lawns and stuff like that in the open space? or is it just an accident of the way the land was distributed?

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @TomGMS @kev_jg

          the street layout is done as a grid in queens because it's the easiest way to anticipate where streets/buildings will be in future for a city that's still mostly unbuilt (of course, NOW it's all built out) the mini lawns etc are choices developers made with the plots they had

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        7. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @kev_jg

          so with a city like Tokyo, did they wind up with a neighborhood that looks so loose and organic because nobody really was looking to plan out the development in advance?

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @TomGMS @kev_jg

          yes--what you're looking at is what started out as runaway unplanned suburban sprawl in the 40s~60s (iirc), in which new buildings kept being added and old ones redeveloped, iterating again and again over decades

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @TomGMS @kev_jg

          modern Japanese suburbs, like American ones, may lack coordination *between* particular developments, but are at least rigorously planned (street widths, setbacks, etc) *within* each one

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        2. OcTomber‏ @TomGMS Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh

          is underground the way to go across the board in terms of city rail systems?

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @TomGMS

          underground always serves a useful role where it's hard to get right-of-way, but at least in Tokyo, I prefer the surface and elevated railways

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 20
          Replying to @380kmh @TomGMS

          they're just as frequent as the subway but offer much nicer views

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