>>1849914Other thoughts:
. I like the idea of mixing low and high income housing, no criticisms here.
. Those" car slowing" roads will be an absolute pain not only to drive through but general to orient oneself while walking around. Especially since this is not a historied town with known "landmarks" that can guide you, like in genuine medieval european towns. Instead the urban fabric is a copy-paste of georgian style apartment blocks
. and related to the last point. I really dislike this conservative tendency to just build things like they used to be hundreds of years ago. Like yes, i get the appeal, and i get the criticisms of internationalist modernism, but you're never gonna recreate anything more than a soulless pastiche or history; never historical authenticity.
instead new urbanists should look at the work or architects such as Carlo Scarpa to see how modern architecture can fuse and recognize the historical past in all its layers, while also not negating the present.
