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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We need to bring our cities back to human scale and not car scale.

Cities need to become more "dense" and have less aboveground car parking lots spreading everything out large distances. Think of a Walmart parking lot, have you ever walked to the store across the parking lot, or just drove instead? This is what's happening in all cities.

We need cities where we can walk, cycle, and take transits such as trams, subways and trains.

Everything should be within a 15-20 minute walk or cycle around us, and we should not have to cross 7 or 8 car lanes of traffic.