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Where are you referring to where there are only two city types? I live in the Netherlands, neither of the two existing models you describe sound familiar in any
by synu 4y ago
Where are you referring to where there are only two city types? I live in the Netherlands, neither of the two existing models you describe sound familiar in any countries around here, although our cities were certainly designed in a low tech past.
- courgette 4y agoThanks for remembering about most of humanity.
- cryptonector 4y agoIt's all local. u/danielrpa was referring to local conditions, and so was u/synu.
- danielrpa 4y agoI was referring to the United States, but you can adapt the principle to other places, but with updated descriptions.
- ido 4y agoA lot of the Ruhrpott[0] resembles that example and is considered a kinda shitty place to live in by a lot of Germans. A friend of mine who came here (Berlin) from there summed it up as “you spend a lot of time in your car”. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr an area in Germany close to the Dutch border
- kulahan 4y agoAre context clues no longer a thing? This is a story about American cities. Why would you assume he is also referring to all non-American cities?
- synu 4y agoPeople here often talk make statements expanding on the original article and I was curious, but in any case thanks for confirming this is a US-only thing. Makes sense.
- delftlander 4y agoAs someone who lived in the Netherlands until 2018, I lived a very different experience than you. While those two models aren't perfect matches, they are quite familiar—at least in North and South Holland. Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht (ok, not Holland...) had mass amounts of people from surrounding villages (essentially suburbs) with longer commutes to work in the city (model 1). I knew several people who worked in these cities and had a daily commute of 40 to 60 minutes one way for university or work. A lot of Amsterdam can be seen as a densely populated area facilitating moving people from residential areas to commercial for work (essentially model 2). It absolutely has a rush hour of people commuting from both the surrounding areas and different neighborhoods; this is seen in both car traffic, trams, taxis, and trains. Many other large cities in neighboring countries (e.g. Brussels) would also fit this description. These might not be a 2-hour commutes, but it's far from living, working, and shopping in your neighborhood.