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The thing armchair auto-focused urbanists don't understand is the infeasible cost of changing urban placement: because it accretes over decades/centuries. It's
by ethbr1 1y ago
The thing armchair auto-focused urbanists don't understand is the infeasible cost of changing urban placement: because it accretes over decades/centuries.
It's trivially easy for a city to paint itself into a corner from which it's (financially) impossible to escape, with 'best intentions' at every step.
Next thing they know, major employment hubs are too far apart, with major buildings that cannot be relocated, without continguous right of ways, and... they're fucked.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoIt's instructive to look at how the Netherlands went from car-focussed design in the 1970s to their modern multi-modal designs nowadays. It just needs the political will, which in the Netherlands was helped with the Stop The Child Murder campaign (Stop de kindermoord). https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Planning_Casebook/Stop_de_kindermoord https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Planning_Casebo...