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Originally Posted by Segun
I see at least one walkable commercial street in between all of that madness. Some places in the US don't have that.
Sao Paolo didn't feel that pedestrian-friendly, even though pedestrians were everywhere.
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I think we can say São Paulo is pedestrian-friendly today. It's public transit has been expanding non-stop and it's by far the best in the country. Its central districts are very dense and in many of the most people don't own cars anymore, which is impressive in a city/state obsessed by cars.
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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
São Paulo is less pedestrian friendly than New York as a whole, although it has central nodes that are very pedestrian friendly.
It's very much a mix of New York and Los Angeles, all in one city. Depending on neighborhood, the walkability mirrors one of these two American cities.
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Brasília is very unfriendly to the pedestrian but was designed to be. It was built at the height of auto-centric culture and was seen as being modern at the time. The city does exude a ''Jetsons'' persona and continues to build in the same futuristic 1960s style, but some neighborhoods outside of the planned capital district are densifying and becoming more friendly to pedestrians.
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I would mention the neighbouring Goiânia as very autocentric, despite having a very distinct urban form. It's a 2.5 million people metro area without any dense district that supports a non-car lifestyle. Arid sidewalks, big distances, hot weather.
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South African cities. As American cities, very autocentrics. Many streets in Johannesburg leafy suburbs don't even have sidewalks. It's just gardens and any pedestrian will be forced to walk on the street.