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I agree wholeheartedly. My life dream is to build a car-free city in the US so I can live there. When I was young and even more naive I hoped I could do this be

I agree wholeheartedly. My life dream is to build a car-free city in the US so I can live there. When I was young and even more naive I hoped I could do this before having kids, so they could grow up with that freedom. Now I’m hoping maybe I can do this by the time I have grandchildren. We’ll see. It would require a lot of capital in the form of patient equity to pull off.

mulmen 5y ago
You could just move to a walkable neighborhood in an existing city.
- Symbiote 5y ago
  I don't know North America well enough, but the linked video says such walkable neighbourhoods have very high prices. That's great if you can afford it, but it's also good to campaign for it to be available for those who can't.
  - colinmhayes 5y ago
    But if you built a similar city it would likely have high prices too. Why not try to get more housing built in the places that are already nice instead?
    - oblio 5y ago
      I'm not sure I understand this, why would walkable places be expensive? Walkable places are generally high density which means that buildings are bigger and homes are smaller so prices should be lower.
      - colinmhayes 5y ago
        For the same reason walkable places that currently exist are expensive. People want to live there.
        oblio 5y ago
        Yeah, they want to live there but they don't want others to live there. Otherwise you can just build taller.
        AstralStorm 5y ago
        That sounds like a fake supply problem. Potentially people having places to sell or rent blocking high density developments, or lack of infrastructure causing issues. Good old adage is infrastructure first.
grahamplace 5y ago
The team at Culdesac is working on something like this in Tempe, Arizona, with capital from the likes of Alexis Ohanian[1] see: - https://culdesac.com/ https://culdesac.com/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-phoenix-sprawl.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-p... [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexisohanian_culdesac-re-imagines-what-american-neighborhoods-activity-6603530862812246016-nJte https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexisohanian_culdesac-re-ima...
loonster 5y ago
It exists. Mackinac Island, Michigan.
- laverya 5y ago
  Permanent population of 492, though. 80 [0] kids in pre-k through 12th grade at the school. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_Distric...

mulmen 5y ago

You could just move to a walkable neighborhood in an existing city.

Symbiote 5y ago
I don't know North America well enough, but the linked video says such walkable neighbourhoods have very high prices. That's great if you can afford it, but it's also good to campaign for it to be available for those who can't.
- colinmhayes 5y ago
  But if you built a similar city it would likely have high prices too. Why not try to get more housing built in the places that are already nice instead?
  - oblio 5y ago
    I'm not sure I understand this, why would walkable places be expensive? Walkable places are generally high density which means that buildings are bigger and homes are smaller so prices should be lower.
    - colinmhayes 5y ago
      For the same reason walkable places that currently exist are expensive. People want to live there.
      - oblio 5y ago
        Yeah, they want to live there but they don't want others to live there. Otherwise you can just build taller.
      - AstralStorm 5y ago
        That sounds like a fake supply problem. Potentially people having places to sell or rent blocking high density developments, or lack of infrastructure causing issues. Good old adage is infrastructure first.

grahamplace 5y ago

The team at Culdesac is working on something like this in Tempe, Arizona, with capital from the likes of Alexis Ohanian[1] see: - https://culdesac.com/ https://culdesac.com/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-phoenix-sprawl.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-p... [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexisohanian_culdesac-re-imagines-what-american-neighborhoods-activity-6603530862812246016-nJte https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexisohanian_culdesac-re-ima...

loonster 5y ago

It exists. Mackinac Island, Michigan.

laverya 5y ago
Permanent population of 492, though. 80 [0] kids in pre-k through 12th grade at the school. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_Distric...