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Originally Posted by mhays
He has a point. Atlanta is building a lot of "sort of" urban stuff...towers with parking podiums, Dallas doughnuts, etc. Huge amounts of parking seems like the local standard. It does resemble some of the better highrise suburban nodes. It's urbanish suburban or suburbanish urban.
On today's topic, this will do a lot of good things for getting people close together, building pedestrian volumes, etc., which will help add the liveliness many tourists like. But not as much as buildings of the same mass in a more urban format. Some of that is mode splits because more people have cars and it's easier to use them. Some is that parking podiums are pedestrian-unfriendly regardless of what they look like.
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Atlanta is one of those cities that I think does it right when it comes to its urban infill in spite of its car-centric culture, as far as how all of the developments manage to integrate a ton of parking into the design of the buildings and still make them look somewhat attractive (same thing's happening in Nashville as of late).
BTW, what are "Dallas doughnuts?"
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