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Has any western nation achieved dense middle class inner city neighborhoods post WWII? The anglosphere cities that rose after the ubiquity of the automobile are
by rhino369 5y ago
Has any western nation achieved dense middle class inner city neighborhoods post WWII? The anglosphere cities that rose after the ubiquity of the automobile are all sprawling. The outer run suburbs of all western major cities are sprawling.
The cities with dense middle class inner city neighborhoods mostly developed without cars.
You'd have to ban cars to achieve it.
- Steltek 5y agoFrom scratch? What starting point are you looking for? I don't think enough time has passed for a classical organic urban core to have developed from nothing. I guess for walkable postwar communities, I would look at college towns.
- Qwertious 5y agoCheck out Amsterdam. You don't need to ban cars, you just need to make bikes a preferable alternative. And as has been mentioned all over this thread, check out the YouTube channel called Not Just Bikes, for a ton of good videos on the subject.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> You don't need to ban cars, you just need to make bikes a preferable alternative. You also need flat ground. Soccer-moms do not do hills.
- rhino369 5y agoAmsterdam is my point. If it were founded in 1906 instead of 1306 it would look more Los Angles. It's very hard take an area developed around a car (everywhere in America since 1920s) and make it bike preferable. You basically need for the area to be so run down that you can start from scratch. Like a taking a formerly industrial area and then only zoning it for mixed use, high density residential/commercial use.