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I don't follow. One of the things he rallies against the most in his videos is precisely laws — like zoning regulations and parking minimums — which make it ill

• Tade0 4y ago
  > One of the things he rallies against the most in his videos is precisely laws — like zoning regulations and parking minimums — which make it illegal to build walkable neighbourhoods and encourage car-dependent sprawl. I see this as a perspective of someone who never lived in a walkable city that has both zoning and parking minimums. It's not a case of either-or. The type of construction he's proposing is a net negative to how a city functions - specifically it was a particularly tall building in an area where four floors + ground level buildings were already allowed - that's an already appropriate density for a city. > What are you basing yourself on to make that assertion? That's my experience from just about every European city I spent any appreciable time in(meaning - at least a few months) - especially the one I grew up in. And no wonder - grocery stores scale exceedingly well so far as there's cheap land to build on. That's not the case in city centres.
  • andrepd 4y ago
    Ah the famous Tade0's-experience-price-index /s :) Sure, I'd love to see how prices in small shop chain retailers compare to big box chain retailers. But sorry, your personal gut feeling is not data enough for me. As for walkable cities with zoning and parking minimums, perhaps it can technically be done? But you do agree that it makes it extremely difficult and disincentivised, right?