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Originally Posted by Crawford
This isn't really true. Brickell doesn't have high pedestrian density bc it's mostly very autocentric and pedestrian hostile, and the buildings tend to have fortress-like design. Density, by itself, does nothing for pedestrian counts.
And yeah, the UES doesn't have Midtown crowds, but the UES has bigger crowds than basically anywhere in the U.S. outside of NYC. Nowhere likely has Midtown crowds in the developed world.
Third Ave., Lexington Ave. and 86th Street are all packed. All the UES avenues, excepting Park, Fifth and East End Avenue (which are entirely residential) have heavily seven-day pedestrian traffic. Brickell, unlike the UES, is built around cars, and you enter buildings via parking podiums or large driveway dropoffs. The vast majority of UES highrises have no parking, and everything is oriented around pedestrians and transit.
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Such environments, with high densities but hostile to pedestrians are relatively common in Brazil. In the 2000's, Brazil was under the economic boom, and many regions verticalized quite fast following this pattern. Londrina's Gleba Palhano or São Paulo growth over its older industrial neighbourhoods are examples of that.
From the mid 2010's, however, developers are much more careful while zoning laws encourage more pedestrian friendly highrises. That's been great for São Paulo.
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