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>“The city is the perfect size for pedestrianisation,” says local architect Rogelio Carballo Soler. “You can cross the entire city in 25 minutes. This seems to
by cf141q5325 8y ago
>“The city is the perfect size for pedestrianisation,” says local architect Rogelio Carballo Soler. “You can cross the entire city in 25 minutes.
This seems to be the key point why it works.
- boobsbr 8y ago25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city.
- jcelerier 8y ago> 25 minutes on foot? It's more of a village than a city. you can walk from side to side of Paris in a tad more than one hour with a good rhythm, and two hours if you take it normally.
- adrianN 8y agoParis is ~10km across. The metropole region around it is much larger.
- boobsbr 8y agoConsidering Paris is roughly 10 km across North-South, that's about 12 min/km at an average human walking speed. So, this city is about 2 km across, which is very small, a village, considering smaller cities are more sparsely populated than an European metropolis.
- mattmanser 8y agoYou're really fixated on this village thing. Drop into street view in the city centre and have a look around. It's not a village.
- ajuc 8y agoDepends on the country probably. In my country villages are very often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement , going on for kilometers along some road, with farming land on both sides. Small to medium cities (< 100 000 people) are often very dense because they're mostly made out of commieblocks or old tenament houses. It's much easier to live without a car in a city. BTW: this village goes on for 20 km. It has 6000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja For comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo is the most densely populated city in Poland, it has about 50 000 people, and is about 3x5 km of low buildings. And still about 10% of the city is a forest :) Cars waste so much space that people are used to bloated cities.
- TheCoelacanth 8y ago1/25th the size of Paris is not what I would call a "village". Paris is a huge metropolis. It is a small-medium sized city. Additionally, Paris is not exactly a demonstration of how larger cities need cars considering that about 70% of its inhabitants commute without using a car at all.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoI'll settle for 3 hours and a croque-monsieur :)
- fabatka 8y agoAre you familiar with the saying "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, In the US 100 years is a long time"?
- pjc50 8y agoIt's the old town area only, of a city of 80,000 people.
- loriverkutya 8y agowith 80 000 people living there, it is not a village
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- compcoffee 8y agoAnd let's not forget temperate climate, without snow/freezing cold or excessive heat.