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Our entire approach to town and city building is fucked.

People/professionals all vacation to places like Tulum (etc) where you can just walk through little slices of paradise on foot (or scooter) and reach everything you need without a car, then rave about how great it is, and then go back home and continue designing and building the worst imaginable human experience infrastructure.

Blows my mind. We could have cool little interconnected towns with diverse landscapes all connected by rail, bicycles, scooters, and walking... but nah.

All hail Walmart parking lots bigger than a football field.

[farnsworth → Solvency]

Tulum is a weird example, you can't really even walk from town to the beach. PDC, on the other hand. I agree with your general point.

[JKCalhoun → Solvency]

> All hail Walmart parking lots bigger than a football field.

Ha ha, and for what amounts to just one month where usage peaks.

[wil421 → Solvency]

Do any of the locals live and work in Tulum?

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See also: Universities and theme parks