There's plenty of land, plenty of places for people that aren't mega-cities. Those of us out here know that. And my commute? Down the hall to my computer.
Put small towns on train lines, the car issue is lessened. Make the shopping districts walkable, again lessened.
I do use a car out here - to get to a city center where I walk from then on. A train or bus would have worked too.
> I do use a car out here - to get to a city center where I walk from then on.
Is that appreciably different from driving to a mall and then walking through it to do your shopping? A quaint downtown square with a hardware store, a grocer, a butcher, and a barber shop is nostalgic but doesn't serve large populations as well.
The city center I walk has two malls, 20 coffee shops, 100's of businesses. Art, museums, outdoor parks with bandstands. Some people live there and rarely leave.
Pretty different from driving to one mall I guess.
And who goes to 1 mall to do their shopping? I know people who visits three grocery stores and a big-box store to get their groceries. Different places have different stuff, different prices.
I guess that's all part of the car mentality. Takes as long to walk a mall, as drive to another one.
The village/train idea is, make geography meaningful. So you go to a place to do a thing, invest value in the activity.
There's plenty of land, plenty of places for people that aren't mega-cities. Those of us out here know that. And my commute? Down the hall to my computer.
Put small towns on train lines, the car issue is lessened. Make the shopping districts walkable, again lessened.
I do use a car out here - to get to a city center where I walk from then on. A train or bus would have worked too.