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Silicon Valley is a car-centric urban area, and this Google initiative strikes a cord with this talk "The Importance of Designing Streets Instead of Engineering
by antr 11y ago
Silicon Valley is a car-centric urban area, and this Google initiative strikes a cord with this talk "The Importance of Designing Streets Instead of Engineering Them", well worth watching:
http://www.architecture.io/talks/mikael-colville-andersen-the-importance-of-designing-streets-instead-of-engineering-them/ http://www.architecture.io/talks/mikael-colville-andersen-th...
- bduerst 11y agoIf you look at the history of South SF Bay, it has always been a string of commuter communities. It started with the train to take workers into SF and the rich out to their mansions on the weekends. It exploded in the 1950's with affordable automobiles, and houses went up everywhere. Now the workers are going the other way and the South SF Bay infrastructure is being crushed by it.