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Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe

• keiferski 6y ago
  A lot of ex-communist cities that were rebuilt after the war can probably pull this off, compared to preserved Western European cities, as the streets and sidewalks are generally huge. The Soviets liked scale. Warsaw and (East) Berlin, for example, have some really wide monumental streets. They tend to be great in the summer (lots of wind flow) but awful in the winter (for precisely the same reason.) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=berlin+karl+marx+allee&t=iphone&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=berlin+karl+marx+allee&t=iphone&ia... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warsaw+marszalkowska&t=iphone&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warsaw+marszalkowska&t=iphone&iar=...
  • JAlexoid 6y ago
    That's not the case for old town Vilnius, at all! Streets are fairly narrow and only a few open spaces are available.
    • keiferski 6y ago
      Sure, and Warsaw Old Town is also quite narrow. But the rest of the city is commie wide street style. I’m not sure what Vilnius is like but I imagine it’s fairly similar.