Can walkable neighborhoods work in America?
Why wouldn’t they? They work everywhere else in the world. American exceptionalism isn’t that exceptional.
Saying this is the first “car free neighborhood” is like saying America is the first place to be built with a grid.
Yeah. Left such a bad taste in my mouth so quickly that it was all I could do to make myself take-back my down-vote for the sake of how much I hate car-centric living.
Where in the article does it say it’s the first car-free neighborhood ever? It just says it’s the first in America, it even has a nod to how European cities tend to be built around walking in contrast to American cities.
I’m quoting the title. It’s a subset of the sentence. I’m sure you’re 100% accurate and logical with everything you say.
“America’s first car-free neighborhood” and “first car-free neighborhood,” while both being strings present in the title, are not equivalent statements. I don’t think it would be correct to omit “America’s” in your comment.
Seriously, I’m appalled at their utter lack of reading comprehension. Average six year olds could probably understand the difference in meaning.
Fuck you. You clearly know what I meant.
Car-free (i.e. automobile-free) neighborhoods were common in the US before the 20th century.
There’s a car-free neighborhood in my city and it’s been there for at least 25 years. It was not originally designed as such; they simply made a huge section of downtown pedestrian only by putting blockers on the street.
I guess Seaside, FL is technically not “car-free”, but the community is built with tiny streets and is designed to be walkable, with cars discouraged.
Arizona is hot AF. Walking in that heat is going to be rough. Let’s see how that goes.
The community did this innovative thing called installing shade and keeping roadways narrow. It heavily reduces the urban heat island effect.
They also did this brand new thing called putting stores within a 5 minute walk of housing which reduces resident’s heat exposure.
Better get into a solar oven that also produces waste heat so you can avoid wearing a hat.
Speak up when you have ways to encourage more of it, instead of discourage it.
Wouldn’t that kind of be part of the point? If walkable communities can work in Arizona of all places, there’s no excuse (short of “I literally can’t open my front door due to all the snow on the other side of it”) for the rest of the country.
Seeing as how it has been around for 5 years now it seems to me that we have seen how it goes.
Though that doesn’t stop some people from running to the comments section to type the first thing that pops into their head.
Lol ate up a bunch of paid ads articles. Go live there, then give me your facts. https://www.reddit.com/r/arizona/comments/1bo9fqs/has_anyone_actually_visited_the_new_carfree/
These are the only comments in that thread that mention the word “hot” or “summer”:
