This post incorporates content from Streetsblog Chicago Cofounder and Advisor Steven Vance’s development data website Chicago Cityscape. This week there was reason to celebrate for both Chicago sustainable transportation fans, and folks working to make housing more plentiful in our city. Prior to Wednesday’s City Council vote, Chicago’s Connected Communities Ordinance, passed in July 2022, […]
Making space for storing large metal boxes is no longer mandatory.
@humanspiral@Taldan Micromobility has little to do with it. There always have been large numbers of people in cities who get around by walking, transit, and sometimes their own bicycle. Policies decided largely by suburbanites and influenced by the fossil fuel and oil lobbies have long sought to chip away at our ability to travel freely without consuming their products. Some of the tech disrupters have made it trendier for yuppies to ditch cars, but they haven’t significantly changed modeshare.
I get the lobbying source responsible for past policies. Future trends means density can be increased without space for 1 car per family, but still let people who want a car find such housing. Builders have the choice to ignore or see the future.
3-5 story “single house wide” multiplexes is affordable density compared to skyscrapers that need expensive elevators and underground multi story garage support structures. Though it is car culture/mandates that makes such affordable density impossible.
@humanspiral @Taldan Micromobility has little to do with it. There always have been large numbers of people in cities who get around by walking, transit, and sometimes their own bicycle. Policies decided largely by suburbanites and influenced by the fossil fuel and oil lobbies have long sought to chip away at our ability to travel freely without consuming their products. Some of the tech disrupters have made it trendier for yuppies to ditch cars, but they haven’t significantly changed modeshare.
I get the lobbying source responsible for past policies. Future trends means density can be increased without space for 1 car per family, but still let people who want a car find such housing. Builders have the choice to ignore or see the future.
3-5 story “single house wide” multiplexes is affordable density compared to skyscrapers that need expensive elevators and underground multi story garage support structures. Though it is car culture/mandates that makes such affordable density impossible.