We should make cities more walkable, less dependent on cars

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[–]x0x7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think it is only practical that different spaces have different degrees of walkability, but I agree the meme was not clear at all.

Basically for all areas with any development to be walkable then all areas either have to be 100% non-developed or 100% developed, with no in between. It's just not realistic for these lower density areas to be walkable, or just randomly cease to exist.

What's going to happen to the areas currently in between. Is it going to be endless urbanization? You are going to need a lot more people to fill that space so I guess start having babies. Or are they going actually bulldoze entire counties worth of developed land to turn it into farm land?

That's the problem with these ideas. It's just selling the outcome people want as if some government policy could just make it happen and as if it really were some democratic decision. It's like getting support to vote on all cuts of meat being tenderloin. If only voting for that outcome could just make it happen. Maybe we can vote to end cancer?

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Basically for all areas with any development to be walkable then all areas either have to be 100% non-developed or 100% developed, with no in between.

Are you saying that the only areas that are walkable are wilderness and buildings?

Because that's not true.

It's just not realistic for these lower density areas to be walkable, or just randomly cease to exist.

You can increase the walkability of suburbia by ensuring safe pedestrian infrastructure and providing shade and lighting. And by putting walking paths and small parks between streets to make the area more permeable and pleasant to pedestrians.

It can be done without dramatically increasing or eliminating population density.

Or are they going actually bulldoze entire counties worth of developed land to turn it into farm land?

Farmland isn't particularly walkable.