The typical American "city"
The typical American "city"
Cameron Robinson
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Christopher Hill
And this is what Houston USED to look like in the early 20th century. Americans literally spent time, money, and resources, going BACKWARDS.
Asher Stewart
Asher Price
>drivable city
Carson Torres
Does it look any better now?
Ian Lopez
who knows, who cares
no need to post it every fucking day here
Isaac Perez
Why did we have to fall for the car meme? It's not fair bros.
Jonathan Lopez
did they just go demolishing hundreds of buildings?
Brody Jenkins
Unironically, yes, that is literally what they did. Those cities were not "built for the car", they were bulldozed for the car.
Lucas James
Less bad, but still terrible
Connor Watson
every city
cincinnati filled in their canals to make boulevards
Leo Torres
race relations
Samuel Bennett
We’ve been building over the parking lots a lot in the last decade (pic is Dallas)
John Taylor
Yes, especially Kansas City.
Cities instituted “minimum parking requirements” where every business and home had to include a set number of parking spaces, so people bulldozed historic buildings for parking lots.
Austin Gomez
The typical Mexican "city"
Joshua Morgan
What the fuck went wrong with american cities?
We have walkable cities here but that does not mean they are not driveable
We have the most walkable cities in the world but those cities are also some of the most driveable cities at the same time. It's simply a matter of quality of infrastructure
Benjamin Bennett
Yup, and since a lot of them were inhabited by blacks nobody had any issues.
Luke Ross
Yeah
Ethan Thompson
>We have the most walkable cities in the world but those cities are also some of the most driveable cities at the same time
yes yes but where's the proofs? nobody would want to be caught dead driving in the center of any of the largest 5 dutch cities
might also want to note that houston is ~3 times larger than amsterdam/rotterdam; its metro area is just under the size (by population) of the entire randstad
Robert Perez
Why would you even want to drive there. Eveything can be reached by walking and the public transport is really good
Gavin Price
I’d say the most damaging law was “minimum parking requirements”.
But there are a wide array of laws that contributed to the destruction of American urban cores. Obviously the GM streetcar conspiracy played a part but there were more reasons than that.
American zoning is quite bad too.
Check out Strong Towns or Not Just Bikes.
Nicholas Johnson
the guy I was replying to stated that they are _also_ "the most driveable cities" which I think is bullshit
not that I'd ever want them to be "the most driveable"
my point being that it's nigh impossible to make a place both very driveable and at the same time magically accessible by public transport, pedestrians, and bikes
moreover there wouldn't be any real reason to try and do both at the same time desu
it's just dumb to shitpost how dutch cities magically have achieved this impossible duality