Comments by "Minerva\x27s Owl" (@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva) on "Can We Fix Zoning By Tweaking a Few Numbers?" video.
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@1080ike So, in short: an exaggeration followed by another exaggeration after a stable and effective way of building was brutally disrupted, be it in cities or suburban area's.
What's even more bizarre is that with small changes like adding pedestrian area's to walk on, cycling paths or actual public transport stations and rail lines via train, tram or bus would MASSIVELY improve said area's and decrease problems like for example high car use, obesity and so on.
I know Europe and North America are radically different, as things in North America are more based on how political they are rather than just plain common sense like in Europe (left, right and centre parties all acknowledge that the American way of building... anything by now is redundant). As a result, countries like France and Germany are revamping their cities and neighbourhoods by demolishing brutalist style architecture and rebuilding beauty or even build wholly new neighbourhoods in trafitional, dense and pedestrian friendly styles! I can recommend the place Le Plessis-Robinson for good examples of that, and there's also a channel who made a good video on it. Cheers!
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