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No need for that drama. Building walkable cities is not only perfectly possible and cheap, but most US cities were very walkable 100 years ago.
by goodpoint 2y ago
No need for that drama. Building walkable cities is not only perfectly possible and cheap, but most US cities were very walkable 100 years ago.
- shiroiushi 2y agoBuilding walkable cities (at large scale) in the US is impossible. Not because of physics or resources, but because of politics and American voters' preferences. Sure, there's a small portion of the electorate that wants this, but they're a minority and not powerful enough to get real change outside of a few localities.
- falcolas 2y ago100 years ago the US had ~76m inhabitants - a fifth of what we have today - plus horses and buggies were used broadly throughout the country. The streets in our older cities weren't born from nothing but aether when cars were invented.