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what if… we built places specifically designed with walking and public transit in mind… instead of sprawling suburbs where it’s literally illegal to build cute little shops and stuff that people can walk to…
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Anonymous 2w

Friendly reminder that in European countries, even the smallest cities are designed in a way where homes and shops share the same space, removing the need for extremely wide roads, and making it easy to use public transit

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Anonymous 2w

Impossible. The world must be built for the car not the person. People don’t buy stuff, car lobbyists do.

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Anonymous 2w

When was the last time any “new” place was built? We’re so overregulated we can’t build new cities

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Anonymous 1w

We should build mega structures and hive city’s, jobs right where you live! And cars? Yeah cars are gonna be only for mining chromium from asteroids mid orbit. And we can all smoke meth any time we want. That is the perfect city prove me wrong

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Anonymous 1w

I lived in Barcelona, although public transport was better there… I still had the Uber so much just to get from the restaurants on the beach to my house by the Basilica

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

I was in Lyon (3rd largest French city) for a month. The whole center area of the town was pretty much a huge town square made up of a bunch of smaller town squares where nobody could drive through. The subway felt on par with a network here as expansive as DC or NYC. Buses everywhere, an above-ground line, fucking rail cars going up and down the mountains (ppl lived there), and even more.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Keep in mind the population is only around 500k and the transit is this good. My city Philly is 3x the population and our main rail lines look like a single plus sign (except regional rail). Lyon also had cement-protected bike lanes. Here in Philly, the most we have are bike lanes protected by plastic bollards and maybe parked cars. I’ve seen cars use the fucking bike lanes as their own personal parking space 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I also went to Lyon last summer!! It’s my favorite city I’ve ever been to. Pretty much every metropolitan area in France has extremely useful and cheap transit that pretty much everyone uses regularly. Even on the fringes of Lyon where its suburban houses, there’s still a reliable bus service and electric bikes that are FREE for 30 minutes

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

truth nuke

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

The only bad part for me was the bus service cutting off so early. I walked across the entire city one night after a concert bc the only bus running was packed immediately. I also drank a lot with my future girlfriend there and would have to walk her up those mountains behind Vieux Lyon to get to her dorm, then walk back (almost fully blacked out with and navigate with low phone battery)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Yeah the buses cut off annoyingly early, but that’s when I just used the bikes even though they’re a little annoying to find

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Actually true

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

It’s not new, but Austin’s apartments have increased 33% in the last 5 years which means At least 1/4 apartments in Austin have been built in the last 5 years.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Building apartments =\= city planning

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