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There are a lot of different types of workplaces, from office towers to corner stores to shipping ports to neighbourhood restaurants to nail salons to farms to

There are a lot of different types of workplaces, from office towers to corner stores to shipping ports to neighbourhood restaurants to nail salons to farms to industrial parks. I think with office towers being the only possible exception, the rest could easily have all of their workers live within biking distance. The office towers can be located walking distance from a metro stop. The key is just to avoid restrictive zoning that prevents people from opening a barber shop or a corner store in their residential neighbourhood.

Earw0rm 2y ago
That and having a dynamic housing market; flexibility in other services e.g. schools, so that people can move where work is, and move somewhere else when they're not working; and building mixed-use neighbourhoods that have schools, doctors, sports facilities and so on. Not sure how the US handles that, but in my country (UK) there are various factors that mean people don't move as much as common sense might suggest. High sales tax on houses, very variable quality of schools meaning the good ones are oversubscribed and if you move your kids may end up at a worse school some distance away, and so on.