As The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling might have said: …a street in any town…
My two cents worth… What is at the heart of a comfortably walkable neighborhood?
1. Public ways that have human scale. Like the above.
Comment: Originally built before autos—but still able to accommodate wagons and animals. How can these be built today and meet your local and regional health and safety requirements? Maybe it is time to rethink health and safety requirements?
2. Social communities where people are truly respectful of neighbors. Like the above.
Comment: Where true respect exists, people do not worry about personal effects (see lower right above) being defaced or stolen. Or covered with graffiti and tags which often these days are the first signs of disrespectful neighbors.
Care for a walk?
I’ll join you! 🙂
Alienation is the cause of most antisocial behaviour, and it isn’t only the kid with a spray-can, it can also be the monied entrepreneur who feels the small-scale user-friendly neighbourhood is out of tune with his (rarely her) ambitions for making a mark on the world. In my view, anyway!
It looks like a paradise and I would like to take a walk there