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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by HarryHirsch on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:01PM (#29545844)
It's telling that there are people who have never experienced the result of proper town planning and conclude that town planning is an impossibility.
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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by bowmessage on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:03PM (#29545881)
How so? My argument is the "initial planning" of many European cities never really happened. Plenty of planning has happened since, I'm sure!
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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by jjulius on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:11PM (#29545969)
Remove "initial" from my original post and my point still stands; Europe planned for them at some point, the US didn't, and what the US did - to this article's point - doesn't lend itself to adapt to these parklets so readily.
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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by talideon on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:07AM (#29548460)
Yes, in the '80s, '90s, and so on, after _decades_ of very car-centric planning.

The US needs to change how it does planning and learn from the experiences of other countries that actually took steps to become less car-centric.

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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by TulliusCicero on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:48PM (#29547993)
More likely they inadvertently ‘planned’ for them by planning wide sidewalks that could be then be partially repurposed.
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