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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
I think the real key to better suburbs is to ruthlessly abolish the suburban street layout.
Everything else that sucks about suburbs, and makes them hard to desuck, stems from the loops and swirls and lollipops macro-design of the things. They are made to drive to and from AND within. Making them less auto-centric internally will drive making them less auto-centric externally.
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I think there has been considerable effort to improve this. Cut through pedestrian accesses are now common. Street patterns are not as horrible as they were back in the 1960s.
Part of the problem is how we separate land use. There is a lack of local business within walking distance, however, our obsession with big box stores has made local businesses not viable. Part of this also traces back to the advent of Sunday shopping which killed a large portion of neighbourhood stores.