But we didn't create walkable 15 minute cities.
Instead we build our cities and societies around this one neat trick that won't ever become a burden for any reason...
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We did, but they're mostly older towns. Where I live in California everything is within walking distance and I rarely use my car unless I'm going to another city. Which is good, considering gas is currently [ERROR] here. It's an old gold rush town and I love it.
Plenty of places like that exist. Even downtown in my major city has multi use complexes. So like a grocery store and coffee shop shop on the main floor and residences for the other floors. Even some condos are going this route.
Meanwhile, the grocery store a mile away from me is twice as expensive as the grocery store ten miles away from me, and moving to a walkable area is 3x the rent.
That's great! Hopefully we can trend towards that for future development.
Zoning and bylaws need to change first as well. Some areas in the city you just can’t do that without special permission, and other nearby residents get a say if allowances are made or not.
It’s an imperfect system, but it does stop edge cases where things get bad.
some places exist though, small towns, very walkable, 'cause its small and yet dipshits still get in their car and drive 250 meters.
we lived on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia for a tme, had no car, my gf commuted 4 km to work on her escooter. Rented our condos 2 car spaces our to car brained dipshits who had 3 or more cars for $180 a week and that more than covered our common area fees. Mega shopping mall across the road and all sorts of health services. No HVAC needed up on the 15th story, great sea breeze and view of the ocean and occasionally dolphins, not a back fence. A McDonalds literally across the road, 10 minute return walk, people still drove.
My laboured point ? , some of its structural but I think it starts with behavioural change and as the Overton Window then moves and new behaviors are normalized, better infra. arises and things snowball.
All I'm seeing is "We recognise the need for a hotel courtesy bus but have decided not to provide one."
Yes it's mad that you can't walk it, but that probably wasn't something the hotel could do anything about.
I read it as 'it's okay, just walk Synergy Tim Hortons'
Sure, I'll just tell my boss that I have to come in 4 hours late and leave 4 hours early because I'll be busy walking.