Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas
by antr on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:50PM
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The "380x480" blocks comment reminds me of this talk by an urban planner on why people want to live in (European-like) cities, the grid layout seems to be a problem:
Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas
by x0x0 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:01PM
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that talk is fascinating for the illustration of employment density too, and this factoid: 43% of new yorkers live within 400m of a subway station
Re:$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas
by ghaff on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:00PM
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Well, there are lots of Nice Places(TM) in the US but they're nice across an incredibly wide range of attributes. And the Nice Places I'd want to live in (to say nothing of be likely to get a job in or near) are a pretty subset of the Nice Places I enjoy visiting.
One of the things I learned from an open-ended road trip around half the United States a while back is that there are lots of nice places... maybe more than there's actually time to see, apparently more than the number of slots most US citizens have in their head for Nice Places(TM). And I'm glad some of my favorites are off the mainstream map, because it means I can better afford real estate there (though for most of these the locals and local developers are making it more expensive anyway).
It's arguable that some places offer unique levels of specific opportunities, and if SF and NY are like that for you, there's nothing wrong with choosing them. But there's a whole country of nice places between the two.
> It's too bad the blocks in Vegas are so large (looks like 380x480) and the streets so wide.
This is far from LV's biggest problem; well-subdivided blocks interspersed with good paths suitable for pedestrians and light vehicles could work out fine, keeping auto traffic proper at the periphery, maybe something people don't even have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.