> Well in a well-designed city, you could just walk to all those things.
You may call it well-designed, but I think that all those close amenities you are enjoying is a side-effect of high-density living for high-income people.
After all, no matter how well you design a place, that (for example) hairdresser still needs enough people who can afford the service to live within walking distance so that it can turn a profit.
I think it's less a case of "How do we design this city so that everything is no more than a 25m walk away?" and more a case of "High density population with lots of money attracts businesses to the area".
> There's nothing special about where I live except that it's development predates the automobile.
You may call it well-designed, but I think that all those close amenities you are enjoying is a side-effect of high-density living for high-income people.
After all, no matter how well you design a place, that (for example) hairdresser still needs enough people who can afford the service to live within walking distance so that it can turn a profit.
I think it's less a case of "How do we design this city so that everything is no more than a 25m walk away?" and more a case of "High density population with lots of money attracts businesses to the area".
> There's nothing special about where I live except that it's development predates the automobile.
That's true for most places.