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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:54AM (#29548982)
Many European cities have pedestrian-only central squares or plazas that are hundreds of years old.
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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by PedroBatista on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:57AM (#29550000)
A couple decades ago there were cars in most of those plazas.

Actual steps were taken to change that.

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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by talideon on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:20PM (#29573288)
You assume that there wasn't a period of several decades where many of those squares and plazas didn't have roads running though them, and needed to be reclaimed from cars, much as streets in general needed to be. That assumption would be wrong.
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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by znowcone on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:52AM (#29549626)
That's only a tiny part of a city.
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