What’s the environmentalist or progressive thinking on designing rural spaces?
I live on a farm and need my car/motorbike to get around.
Rural communities can’t be served by trains because the small population doesn’t justify the cost.
Are we supposed to have train stations every 30 miles, and park-and-ride everywhere? Should we be riding quad bikes instead of cars? Really my question is: is there a generally-agreed on set of principles for progressive rural design, like there seems to be for cities?
Japan as well. All around the world, rural areas are served by transit systems. Usually trains connecting towns and then buses operating within towns. Our rural areas are less concentrated, but not less dense overall. The old town centers still exist across most of the country and they could easily be reconnected to a good train network and get buses running. Most of these rural towns were built on railroads in the first place.
In some states - NY, PA, VA, CA - there are rural towns that still have good rail connections, and those places are much healthier economically and socially than their disconnected counterparts.
Every gray dot in this screenshot is a small, dense, rural village surrounded by farmland.