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Kansas City in the 1920's was pretty fucking well done. I'd just seek to recreate that.
>Wide streets
>Meticulous grid plan
>City beautiful movement in evidence everywhere
>Government district with beautiful buildings and monuments on park-like surroundings.
>Train station and major business district within walking distance of each other.
>Streetcar service starts downtown and proceeds all the way into the depths of the suburbs in the center of vast parkway with walking paths on either side and of course, more wide streets.
>Well planned neighborhoods with tasteful and distinct themes, row houses with small lawns nearer to the city's core, becoming freestanding further out
>Far-flung suburbs are inter-mingled with working farms
Kansas City's streetcar and interurban rail network was so good, and arguably so overbuilt versus the population, the it markedly delayed the proliferation of cars in the metro area until it was dismantled. Kansas City was noted for having lowest density of traffic, due to this and wide streets, of any city of her size until after WW2. Everything in red on this map is a streetcar/interurban line. Note line 48, the famous "Strang Line" that proceeded into Olathe which was extremely thinly populated farm land at that time. Made it possible to live in the countryside but go into town with ease.
