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I really don't want to live in a city designed for cars first, Detroit being one of the poster children of that. But it's actually kind of hard to find a reason
by ericd 7y ago
I really don't want to live in a city designed for cars first, Detroit being one of the poster children of that. But it's actually kind of hard to find a reasonably priced city that's not swamped with cars and car infrastructure, so we could use some new cities that are designed with the realization that cars don't really belong in city centers. I would absolutely move to a well planned new city, especially if cars were banned to the periphery, as in some Dutch cities. I imagine that I'm not alone in that.
- ghaff 7y agoEven in the Netherlands, vehicles are not really absent from the city cores although there are more bikes in particular than in many other places. I'm not sure you contradict my basic point though. Plop down a centrally-designed city that severely limits cars and I think you'll have a lot of trouble attracting either residents or employers.
- ericd 7y agoCertainly not absent from all city cores, but some cities have banished them. My point was that there's at least one resident who would be interested, and I don't think I'm unique in that. Maybe unusual, but there are a lot of people in the US, so maybe high enough in absolute number.