i visited some european cities and some middle eastern cities.
there are main roads where traffic is, and then there are streets.
Streets are NOT made of cement, softer the material the easier to walk on ... Dirt? the best.
Streets can sprawl 4 blocks in US city size.
Streets don't have any traffic, but cars can be parked here and there randomly. (car ownership is less)
What it did was that grocery, laundry, hardware store, restaurants, and pretty much everything was in walking distance... you didn't need a car. and there were no cars to get in your way.
But with 5 minutes of walking you could easily be next to highway and hail a taxi.
All that time I was there, I was like OOOMG this make soooo much sense, I dont need to drive 4 miles to some mega shopping mall to do shopping then come back find parking for 30 minutes.
Oh and nobody was fat. Since everyone did light walking daily. people were less stressed as there was culture and less stress.
I don't get why every street needs to have a freaking car in it.
old cities were the best.
i visited some european cities and some middle eastern cities.
there are main roads where traffic is, and then there are streets.
Streets are NOT made of cement, softer the material the easier to walk on ... Dirt? the best.
Streets can sprawl 4 blocks in US city size.
Streets don't have any traffic, but cars can be parked here and there randomly. (car ownership is less)
What it did was that grocery, laundry, hardware store, restaurants, and pretty much everything was in walking distance... you didn't need a car. and there were no cars to get in your way.
But with 5 minutes of walking you could easily be next to highway and hail a taxi.
All that time I was there, I was like OOOMG this make soooo much sense, I dont need to drive 4 miles to some mega shopping mall to do shopping then come back find parking for 30 minutes.
Oh and nobody was fat. Since everyone did light walking daily. people were less stressed as there was culture and less stress.
I don't get why every street needs to have a freaking car in it.
from nyc btw.