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It's telling that there are people who have never experienced the result of proper town planning and conclude that town planning is an impossibility.
by HarryHirsch 5y ago
It's telling that there are people who have never experienced the result of proper town planning and conclude that town planning is an impossibility.
- bowmessage 5y agoHow so? My argument is the "initial planning" of many European cities never really happened. Plenty of planning has happened since, I'm sure!
- jjulius 5y agoRemove "initial" from my original post and my point still stands; Europe planned for them at some point, the US didn't, and what the US did - to this article's point - doesn't lend itself to adapt to these parklets so readily.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoMore likely they inadvertently ‘planned’ for them by planning wide sidewalks that could be then be partially repurposed.
- talideon 5y agoYes, in the '80s, '90s, and so on, after _decades_ of very car-centric planning. The US needs to change how it does planning and learn from the experiences of other countries that actually took steps to become less car-centric.