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You can have suburbanism with walkable towns. This is how suburbs were built before 1945.
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
You can have suburbanism with walkable towns. This is how suburbs were built before 1945.
- bombcar 4y agoAnd those still exist! And any “small town” is walkable almost by definition-but people move away from them to the outskirts of the cities.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoI don't think that's true. My grandparents live near a town of 4k people or so that's not walkable in the slightest, spread out over miles of highway with massive city-sized streets criscrossing everything. Most of the houses are 2+ miles away from the grocery store.
- bombcar 4y agoI'm sure they exist, but what is around the grocery store that there's no houses within 2 miles? Often the "new developments" near these towns are out of town a bit, but even two miles isn't an insane walk. I'll grant that many of them don't have much in the way of sidewalks, but you can often find them.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoIt has some unbuildable hills on one side, the county hospital on another, and then parking lots plus a giant highway interchange filling out the rest of the space.
- p0pcult 4y agoGo visit Chadron, Nebraska sometime. On foot. You'll see the error in your generalization.
- bombcar 4y agoArial reconnaissance seems to show it similar to the town I'm in; it could use a bit more sidewalks but the old downtown is certainly walkable and even Walmart shows obvious paths where people are walking across the grass/ground.