1) Rapid transportation (if you have a car)
2) 'Useless' green space; every house has a yard, the houses are all one or two story.
3) All the cars.
Things to pay attention to:
2) 'Useless' green space; every house has a yard, the houses are all one or two story.
3) All the cars.
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| American Suburbs |
Things to pay attention to:
1) Really Narrow Streets
2) Buildings close together (usually multistory)
3) No cars.
3) No cars.
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| Italian Village |
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| English Village |
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| Chinese Village |
America has to switch from this farmhouse style town to a model of urban and suburban development that incorporates village and pedestrian life, while excluding cars and the current standards of 'farmhouse' suburban sprawl.
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Architect's oxymoronic ideals of placing some greenery round what they've built because they think by doing so people will automatically appeal to it.
ReplyDeleteBut we think concrete is ugly, with quaint European villages serene and close knit; maybe European's who live in such villages feel the sam, but opposite viewpoint as us?
Perhaps! I think that, taking the example of the US suburbs, if every house was made 4 stories tall (instead of 1 or 2), you'd automatically reduce density by at least one half. You could further reduce this impact of human development, not by removing green space (which is a great thing), but by consolidating it into parks and public spaces.
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