Nope, we just walk, or take the bus, or tube, or take an Uber if necessary. Really isn't as needed as most people think if you live in an urban area.
The grocery store is a 4 minute walk, my hairdresser is a 1 minute walk, CVS is a 3 minute walk.
I also have an amazing park with play structures, basketball courts, tennis courts, large gracy field, a creek, picnic areas, and such about a 1 minute walk away.
I can bike to work in 20 minutes.
This could be everywhere in the US. There's nothing special about where I live except that it's development predates the automobile.
Seems like there is, and it's that it's very rich? Because something like this:
> an amazing park with play structures, basketball courts, tennis courts, large gracy field, a creek, picnic areas, and such about a 1 minute walk away.
doesn't exist in the entirety of my city, which also predates cars.
Also, do you mean a detached house when you say "from my house"? How many customers within 5-10 minute walking distance does (for example) hairdresser serve in such place?
Really? You have no parks in your entire city? How is that possible? I don't think that's a wealth problem, sounds more like a governance problem to me.
I live in a quadplex on a mixed-density Street. I'd guess there's a 1000 housing units within a 5-10 minutes walk. I'm sure people come from further away as well though.
You may call it well-designed, but I think that all those close amenities you are enjoying is a side-effect of high-density living for high-income people.
After all, no matter how well you design a place, that (for example) hairdresser still needs enough people who can afford the service to live within walking distance so that it can turn a profit.
I think it's less a case of "How do we design this city so that everything is no more than a 25m walk away?" and more a case of "High density population with lots of money attracts businesses to the area".
> There's nothing special about where I live except that it's development predates the automobile.
That's true for most places.
Sorry I wasn't specific enough. Predates the automobile AND (mostly) wasn't destroyed for the automobile.
Lots of America was built before cars but was subsequently destroyed for cars. Those areas aren't what I was referring to.