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bnjd's avatar

In the pre-industrial world, there were just streets. Even some bridges operated as city streets. Ponte Vecchio still does:

https://bnjd.substack.com/p/ponte-vecchio?r=2jjed

Roads within cities are modern phenomena.

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Jesus De Sivar's avatar

This is such a wonderful series of posts, kind of like intro to urbanism 101.

I would love to read a follow up about what homeowners can do to make their homes adapt better to their streets and, therefore, work better as interfaces.

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Andrew Burleson's avatar

That’s an interesting question! In a lot of situations there isn’t much a homeowner can do (the HOA or city ordinances would limit them), but I think there’s probably at least a little bit that’s possible. I’ll give this some thought, thank you for the suggestion!

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Dan Murphy PE's avatar

Or mandated land use ended development on new streets in many places and gave us busy roads and quiet residential primarily instead and much higher fatality rates that we’d see if we had better density

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