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There's a critique of that design on new world economics: http://newworldeconomics.com/lets-kick-around-carfree-com/ http://newworldeconomics.com/lets-kick-aro

• stuckagain 10y ago
  It's not Venice, that's true. I simply use it as an example of how a city of millions of people could easily be built in a compact area, without high rise apartment buildings, and with tons of open space.
• kuschku 10y ago
  The articles of this author are interesting, but he’s missing something. Really narrow roads (<6m) work, but not always. In many cities you have situations where the pedestrian traffic alone is enough to fill 15-20m wide streets. But he is right that the #1 priority is in proportions.
  • kuschku 10y ago
    (Replying to myself because I can’t edit) For example, during large events, even smaller cities’ streets can look like this: http://www.bergmann-gruppe.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/vorschau_kiwo.jpg http://www.bergmann-gruppe.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/vo... (A picture taken during Kieler Woche, one of the largest Volksfests in Europe.) (Image description for the visually impaired: The image shows a roughly 20-30m wide street directly at the edge of the water in a harbour, people completely fill it, as densely as possible, in the background one can see that it continues for hundreds of meters, all the while being this densely filled with people)