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Re:A Traditional City Primer by legulere on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:25AM (#8092212)
Those narrow streets are illegal because it's a problem for the fire department.

I have lots of old cities here in my region that stayed small (<10k inhabitants) and only few of the streets are narrow

Another problem is that you're pretty limited in city size if you can only walk: people don't want to commute for more than 1 hour daily

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Re:A Traditional City Primer by pouetpouet on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:44PM (#8093386)
European 'traditional' cities don't burn down all the time. They just have smaller engines, and because they are less sprawling, the fire truck come from a closer place and can afford to negotiate the streets a little bit slower.
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