Skylines and Developments of the US/World

Charlie_mta said:
My wife and I visited St. John, Halifax and Prince Edward Island in early Fall about 20 years ago, and I love those places. St. John especially struck me as a very urbane, picturesque and active port city. My grandmother came from the small town of Upper Musquodoboit northeast of Halifax, so I'm a bit prejudiced about that whole coastal area of Canada, but it is awesome.
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Agreed, I've enjoyed my travels in Atlantic Canada quite a bit. Always keen to go back. Cape Breton is high on my list!
 
stick n move said:
I’m noticing more and more of these new masterplanned neighborhoods popping up around the country that seem to be creating a fairly dense middle ground type of neighborhood that are walkable with good transit access, but are for people who still need a car. Most Americans who live outside a major city still need to own a car in order to get to work, but these neighborhoods are being designed to be walkable, with retail, grocery stores, transit access, park space, good street walls, and the parking is hidden. Theyre being designed so people can still have a car, but they can use it as little as possible because most needs are within walking distance.

Unlike most regular suburbs today theyre being built densely, near transit, and designed around walking and biking instead of driving. The car is in the garage if you need it, but its out of sight and you can do most things you need without it. I think this is a good way to get people more used to living in denser walkable communities without them having to go from having a car to no car right off the bat.



Edge on Hudson, Sleepy hollow NY
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Theres a grocery store, its located right next to the tarrytown metro north station, the condos all face the street or shared courtyards, the car parking and garages are hidden in back and on service roads. Theres multiple new parks going in, a river walk, and lots of ground floor retail and some restaurants going in the bigger condo buildings.



Highland Bridge, St Paul (ford plant redevelopment)
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Here is pretty similar except theres a massive shared park in the middle of the development with a river. Theres a bus route right across the north of the site and a 7 min walk to the 46th street station for the blue line light rail. These townhouses also have garages but theyre in the back accessible by service roads and the front of the townhouses are right up to the street. The car access means each condo doesnt have its own green-space in the back, but I feel its made up for with the massive shared park space. To the north of the site is a bunch of apartments with lots of ground floor retail, grocery..etc.




Eastern Wharf, Savannah Georgia
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I feel like these are a great model for a better way to densify our suburbs without everything just being single family homes and 5 over 1’s. If a lot of these get built more and more people will get exposure to being able to live in a walkable area and it creates a missing middle type of neighborhood that bridges the gap between suburb and city.
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Another one of these new rowhouse developments with the garages in the back, this time in st louis.

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393b40 said:
Was just in Chicago a few weeks back. What an awesome city.
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I love Chicago; the night life, the music, the elevated rail, all the high rise residential towers. It seems like a real city, the "city of the big shoulders" as Carl Sandburg so aptly described it!
 
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