>>20535183walkable cities are great, that's literally zero of european cities though
>ooo it's walkable but you have to walk 20 minutes to the nearest supermarketjust because you can walk there doesn't mean it's practical to spend 4% of waking time walking there. Sometimes you're in a rush.
What this means is you need a car anyway. What europoor politicians mean when they say about making something 'walkable' is forcing you to waste a significant part of your life walking to shops by making it too expensive or complicated to use a car. Not by making it practical to walk somewhere.
It's not about being unable to walk. If I want to walk I will do that in a nice location, not the shortest path to a shop in some europoor city when it's late and I just want something.
The only truly walkable place I ever saw is Dubai Marina. There's literally everything needed for daily living within 2 minutes of walking. Even if it's 3am at worst that rises to 5 minutes for groceries/pharmacy. Literally
>take a lift down>walk 100 steps>big supermarket on the ground level of some buildingsame for barbers, pharmacies, restaurants, etc, they are on the ground or sometimes on the first floor of residential buildings.
A walkable city requires extreme population density. It only works financially if thousands live in a tight space. Either live in super high dense location and enjoy extreme walkability. Or live in a house and use a car. Everything in between is inferior to the extremes.
