It is certainly hard to execute in practice, but even sprawly Phoenix has shown it can be done. The risk of boondoggles is present, but mainly in "silver bullet" projects ("let's build one huge expensive thing that will save transit forever!") vs maintenance/cleanliness/etc https://twitter.com/10verst/status/1035277657456500736 …
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As for avoiding boondoggles: MANY SMALL BETS, NOT A FEW LARGE ONES this rule also applies to residential developments, business incentives, and many other aspects of city life! granularity rules everything around me
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There was an excellent piece on
@StrongTowns about how this rule applies to those vacant first-floor-commercial spaces that you might have noticed proliferating in your city:https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/6/5/whats-up-with-all-those-empty-commercial-storefronts-in-new-mixed-use-developments?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_content=060618whats-up-with-all-those-empty-commercial-storefronts-in-new-mixed-use-developments …Show this thread -
There was another from
@cnupublicsquare about how this rule applies to street networks--many small streets vs a few big ones:https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/07/31/why-street-grids-have-more-capacity …Show this thread -
One of my favorites, from
@AndrewAPrice on granularity:https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/10/21/granularity …Show this thread
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