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I would love to live in a car free city. I think this looks like a bad implementation of one. A few mistakes I see: 1. It is Arizona, which means it will be bl
by ecshafer 4y ago
I would love to live in a car free city. I think this looks like a bad implementation of one. A few mistakes I see:
1. It is Arizona, which means it will be blisteringly hot the entire year.
2. The mock ups just don't look very pleasant to be in. There are no trees around, there are some sterile looking buildings. It looks like an amusement park.
3. The building lot sizes should be smaller. This is one thing that gives cities the nice organic feel.
If I were to do this project. Start with a train mass transit line into a city nearby, it might be worthwhile to go to the end of a line, buy some land and pay to just extend it. I would do it somewhere with temperate climate. In the charter of the city have no cars (except emergency vehicles), don't allow parking spots, etc. Then build a nice big square near the transit stop with a nice park and plaza, which is the standard american planned town that worked quite well. Divide it out into a few blocks. Build some initial apartments and missing middle style row home / shops. Then sell the land in half acre slices for some row homes around the town. If you don't have anything there no one will come, but if its all planned no one will want to go. Basically just follow the Philadelphia city plan https://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/a-map-of-the-original-city-of-philadelphia https://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/a-map-of-the-origi...