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The first car-free community built from scratch in the US is starting to take off: 'For some, cars equal freedom, but for me, it's a restriction' (www.thecooldown.com)
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Also a huge number of people in the US travel to places that are walkable:

  • Disney World
  • Las Vegas (The strip is anyway)
  • DC
  • NYC
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's like 48°C, pretty hot! I don't think I could walk around in that. I take back some of my criticism.

Surely they need trees and covered areas though, not just boxy houses jammed in together like crooked teeth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This part is my speculation, but the tightness, aside from shade, might be to give the illusion of small community solitude from the inside. Tempe is a very built -out city. More open, and you'll be looking at all the typical American sprawl bullshit and probably a freeway or two

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

@BossDj interesting hypothesis. I've never been to that part of the world, but your theory makes sense.

[–] yggstyle 1 points 9 months ago

I think you're correct. I think this was likely min/maxing on the designers part. Assuming there were open / and 'green' spaces inside or within, say, a cluster of these I'm sure it would be generally acceptable for most people. My fear with designs such as these is vertical creep. What is nice and functional at 2-3 stories becomes a dystopian concrete labyrinth quite rapidly.