czsz
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These photos will make you literally cry with affection for Boston:
http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_Atlanta Tour.html
http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_Atlanta Tour.html
The sad part is that even if cars were to cease to exist, the school of thought in planning and architecture has changed to the point that the pedestrian experience likely wouldn't be improved in the slightest bit. There would be bustling bus, subway, or streetcar stops and still dead streets between those hubs.
I'm not a fan of Kunstler.
Even the streets in Tokyo are comparatively dead away from transit hubs. The same is true in Cambridge on a smaller scale...pedestrian life fizzles out when you get too far from the T stops.
...when it comes to his views on good/bad urbanism and urban planning I tend to agree with him more often than not.
Inman Square is a counter-example, however.
He's got some good things to say, but at this point his input seems to be a net loss.