Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
by sakopov on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:02PM
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Half of Kansas City's downtown is parking lots which generally sit empty during the day. To make matters even worse, the city is constantly building mixed-use areas with retail and office space, restaurants, hotels and apartments intermixed with roads running every which way. Walking around these places is just a constant hazard.
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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
by ajmurmann on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:45PM
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Can you explain how the mixed-use makes this worse? Not having seen it, I'd expect it to make the situation better that I have a restaurant right next to my apartment or office and don't need to get in the car.
Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
by breatheoften on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:54AM
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I haven’t spent any time in Kansas City to know what the parent referred to — but with a lack of knowledge I could imagine this aesthetic could lead to some pretty bad designs if the feeling was that each mixed use function needed its own entrance and each entrance needed to be as close to parking as possible. Such could encourage all the buildings to be islands surrounded by a moat of parking lots which would help ensure that walking anywhere would involve a lot of walking through parking lots ...