I mean, when you’re not being hyperbolic it’s absolutely possible. You can easily have a walkable/transit oriented city with lots of green space
Edit: it also doesn’t even need to be that dense. Like most of my city’s downtown is a lot of old houses rather than endless big apartment towers. The difference between my neighbourhood and American style suburbs is that I have multiple nice high streets within a ten minute walk and can get by without a car, while still living in a three bedroom house
Just look at any college campus and try to imagine if those tried to function without walking and transit. If anything, cities without walkable spaces aren’t practical. And things like places to sit and tree coverage are essential parts of walkability, especially further south.
I mean, when you’re not being hyperbolic it’s absolutely possible. You can easily have a walkable/transit oriented city with lots of green space
Edit: it also doesn’t even need to be that dense. Like most of my city’s downtown is a lot of old houses rather than endless big apartment towers. The difference between my neighbourhood and American style suburbs is that I have multiple nice high streets within a ten minute walk and can get by without a car, while still living in a three bedroom house
Just look at any college campus and try to imagine if those tried to function without walking and transit. If anything, cities without walkable spaces aren’t practical. And things like places to sit and tree coverage are essential parts of walkability, especially further south.
Exactly. It’s crazy and sad that some people are so used to car centric suburbs that they can’t even picture anything else
Alternatively, they live in or near poorly designed urban areas. There are definitely some in my local urban city center.