That’s a commercial district. It’s not intended to be a community.
That’s kinda the whole point
Oxford street, one of London’s primary commercial districts and heavily retail-focused area.
Oxford street looks like a community to me, and at the same time it’s fulfilling all of the same “retail focused” aspects of what is shown in OP’s post/image.
@NarrativeBear @BradleyUffner most shopping districts outside the US incorporate housing or offices above the shops as standard. They absolutely are communities - and residents’ footfall sustains the businesses.
One of America’s biggest mistakes is signs and billboards. Its completely turns tge landscape in an ugly mess. I live near a wealthy town. They dont allow billboards or signs over 10 ft tall. It looks so much better
At least they’ve got a mountain to escape to.
BINGO,
Thats the feature, not the bug. Connected communities lead to less dependence on large corporate ‘services’.
Go to the mountain.
That mountain area looks really pretty
Everything is pretty that hasn’t been touched by Americans
Ok that’s outright bigotry and you know it, we have huge swathes of land without roads here that are maintained by Americans
It needs a parking lot and strip mall /s
I’ve been often wondering, how will we use all this car infrastructure once people advance past private cars?
What will become of that drive-in McDonald’s?I could imagine some sort of a small-scale factory using the building?
Multi-storey parking garages could also serve as storage space, maybe? The tilted floors make many things more difficult, though.I’ve wondering whether that drice through is already on its way out. Maybe it’s just me who no longer uses them, but
- I try to make healthier choices
- online order and rapid pickup is so much easier and faster
- even on road trips, my last holdout, if I’m stopping I need to use the rest area and charger anyway
Multi-story car parks make for a decent base for apartment buildings. They usually are built in areas people actually want to go to. What will be more interesting is what will happen with the large parts of cities, which will be abandoned. To make any alternative work well, you need density and that requires giving up large parts of cities, if the population stays roughly constant.
Multi story car parks would make good bases for covered markets, or other community things I would suppose otherwise drive through diners would probably reclaimed the space within the restaurants. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ housing is always a good shout but it depends on population density and access to facilities :)
The reason you have a car park is because things you want are around it, so housing just being there instead of a car park means people have access to the things they want to use :3
I like my towns version of this, a legit throwback to the 1960s.
- We have a nice walkable “Main Street” of shops and restaurants, and have been trying to permanently pedestrianize.
- we have transit oriented development. Downtown is now zoned for up to six story apartment blocks, with only one parking spot per unit, and yes, this area also includes a multimodal train station
- public parking, including two garages, are behind everything, in a back alley, where they don’t impact people as much, and very few shops and restaurants have their own parking
Start at the library
Its insane cause even in this picture you can see a beautiful fucking mountain, ruined by the stroad.
better that my town, that one has sidewalks
It’s almost a joke. Who would ever walk in this sidewalk? To go where?
Some drive through I guess
But I mean, it’s not connected to anything. It’s just a massive sidewalk with no purpose.
My old US city has at least a couple of roads like that. No mountain for something to ponder while you wait at a stroad intersection, though. Just more asphalt, terrible sidewalks and parking lots all around for miles.
I know where this picture was taken, I’ve stood in that spot.
Fuck Murray, that place sucks.
That’s Orem
This comment chain is peak america.
Anti-vehicle landmines?
I see an opportunity there for a mountain climbing club.
But I take your point.
This is in Murray, Utah, there are MANY a mountain climbing clubs.
