By every measure, 1 hour cities, built for cars, suck when compared to 15 minute cities built for people.
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No, car-centric design is everywhere. North America is especially egregious, because of the power of automakers here, low infrastructure complexity at the time of automobile dominance, and privately owned, small scale rail/cable car networks that were bought up and destroyed by auto companies in the 20th century. Plus economic incentives to drive the creation of the suburb.
But, like, most European cities have torn up massive amounts of infrastructure trying to make car-centric design work. Amsterdam specifically is a “bike” country because of anti-car-centric design they embraced in the 70s, rather than something that they’ve always been.
No, car-centric design is everywhere. North America is especially egregious, because of the power of automakers here, low infrastructure complexity at the time of automobile dominance, and privately owned, small scale rail/cable car networks that were bought up and destroyed by auto companies in the 20th century. Plus economic incentives to drive the creation of the suburb.
But, like, most European cities have torn up massive amounts of infrastructure trying to make car-centric design work. Amsterdam specifically is a “bike” country because of anti-car-centric design they embraced in the 70s, rather than something that they’ve always been.