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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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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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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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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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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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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i have high hopes of finally getting to Japan this year: your pictures and commentary are inspiring
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if you make it by late Oct/early Nov, I'll be around
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