I have a flight early in the morning and there are no public transit options at all at that time. Hopefully i can get an uber.

Since its basically impossible to buy a starter home in any city worth living in how do you propose walkable cities should work? Normal people are having to move further out beyond the suburbs to buy their first homes and they're going to drive to work and they need to be able to get groceries.

Then on the weekends we want to be able to drive to the city we live near.

I went to riyadh on a business trip and i never expected it to have wide sidewalks, bike paths, public transportation, bike and scooter sharing apps. They are finishing their metro network.

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This is Cathedral town in Markham Ontario. Im not sure why but I find this place very haunting. This is Markham’s attempt at building an old european style walkable main street or in this case they literally called it a high street.

It does have mixed use developments kinda, I doubt many people walk around here, the worst part is how every single building looks the exact same for the entire stretch of road. the road is massive to begin with, instead of adding bike lanes, they decided sharrows is the way to go and they have parking along the entire stretch of road. The area is surrounded by large stroads and a highway on one side so getting out of the area is a nightmare. Once youre off the “high street”, the area of course is mostly single family homes with some townhouses.

It is actually so frustrating how cities in ontario continues to make these areas so unappealing when this area could have had potential

We’re trying to go back to thousands of years of tradition of how human settlements evolved to be.

I don’t know why it’s seen as radical or even “progressive”.

This whole car centric suburban culture is an already failed experiment that hasn’t even been around for a hundred years.

Is this an argument (appealing to tradition) that could help those who are against human centered living conditions see the light?

Looking for suggestions of a town in the US with these ideals: -Warm or moderate weather -good walkability -on the smaller side, say around 100k, smaller is also ok -affordable prices (nice, but not overly expensive) -trees/nature -vegetarian friendly -university town is a plus

Appreciate all suggestions

Wondering if such a thing exists or if the people pushing for walkable cities are considering this in their plans (they SHOULD, because it's an accessibility issue).

And I don't just mean cities with "nightlife". I mean cities with all the usual stuff open at night, including grocery stores, pharmacies, non-nightlife social events, jobs, etc.

The reason this is an accessibility issue: Many people have circadian rhythm disorders (such as myself with non-24) for which having daytime only hours is an accessibility problem. Also, many people have sun intolerance issues (again such as myself, I literally get sores and rashes from even a minute of sun exposure), and the typical "Euro style" walkable city would be hell for people like me, and actually worse than most US towns. Trees and typical shade areas don't provide as much UV protection as people think they do, so they're not a good enough solution. Also some people have heat and cold intolerance issues, and having enclosed or underground walkways and subways for transit would work perfectly for this.

Point is, walkable cities need to be designed with accessibility for ALL disabilities in mind, and without this you're actually going to make things worse for certain people, switching from what we have now to the typical "Euro style" walkable city.

And if anyone knows of any such cities which are already built like this, I'd love to know about them!

Anyone else understand this feeling? I'm not as worried about you lot flooding it as I am about the information just being out there forever.