Originally Posted by
RubeRad
I lived for 2yr in Reading, UK, and it was pretty cool how the city center was closed off from cars. It made for a vibrant shopping district. I understand that's pretty common in the UK. I would love to see small-to-medium size U.S. cities take the practice up.
yeah, the pedestrian zones of those old medieval european cities are wonderful places to explore, but i wasn't talking about anything that extreme.
where i live in chicago we still have streets with cars, but there's a better balance to things compared to modern day suburban planning where everything is all car, CAR,
CAR!!!!
when i want to go out to eat or run errands, i want to walk a block or two over to a neighborhood retail street that looks like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9648...7i16384!8i8192
as opposed to getting in a car and driving to one that looks like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0546...7i13312!8i6656
the first example (my neighborhood), though it allows for cars, is still walkable and human-scaled in a way that the second example just isn't.