nonono, not the city. I *love* cities. It's the highway, the cars, etc...
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Replying to @380kmh @JimmyLevendia
Do you genuinely love cities like LA? I can understand loving a city like, say, Edinburgh, but LA?
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I'm not sure you can even separate LA from the cars and highways. It's like loving a body but hating the veins.
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can't get rid of cars entirely, don't rly intend to (even in Tokyo, everyone's got a car)
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the critical mistake is to think of the car as the basic mobile element in a city--no, the feet are!
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In the postwar suburbs built here for the car, they're trying to increase density to make walkable streets a thing
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typical approach--not sure how useful--to try and make an unwalkable place walkable...
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...instead of making it easier to build more where walkability is already a selling point
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The attempt is worth it, as already walkable places quickly priced out of the reach of many, these days...
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Replying to @JimmyLevendia @380kmh
The "New Urbanism" goes for infill in former industrial areas, parking lots etc https://www.thestar.com/life/homes/2011/04/27/revisiting_new_urbanism_in_cornell.html …
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@TorontoStar inshallah this helps
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