urbanism

one reason why suburbs or even cities like Denver feel less walkable are bc the buildings facing streets are just too wide. 

when you’re walking past 100 ft of walmart wall, there’s nothing to engage with. no entryways, no people, no life. but streets with narrower buildings—20 ft or less—give you much more to interact with. more shops, more neighbors, more texture. 

we’re built for human-scale places, not oversized slabs made for cars.

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Lazy take but I feel like in 20-50 years people are gonna look at suburbs fondly the way urbanists do today with mixed use buildings.

(Assuming we develop more localized commercial/retail fronts that aren't plazas or malls)

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Little Free Libraries (but for old/used tech)

I *hope* suburbs can change this by sprinkling more intentional and neighborly concepts like Little Free Libraries.

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I have so much hope for suburbs! They’re sprawled out all across the us so we have no choice but to pour resources and intentional planning to make them more pleasant and walkable. Investing in robust bus systems and little free libraries is how we must move forward!

I *hope* suburbs can change this by sprinkling more intentional and neighborly concepts like Little Free Libraries.

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Yes absolutely!! It’s so exhausting and boring lol

reminded of Salt Lake which has this problem doubled up - the city blocks themselves are _huge_ so in addition to wide buildings, you have wide blocks, and it just takes longer to get around on foot, even if they have the usuals (bike lanes etc)

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Man is the measure (as is written in e.m. Foresters the machine stops).

We forgot the lesson tho.

Buildings can be wide but street facade should be separated into components. This was basic common knowledge amongst architects back in the day.