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veen · 3353 days ago · link · · parent · post: The cost of sprawl (comparing all of downtown Florence to one Atlanta four-leaf highway interchange)
I recall seeing this on /r/urbanplanning some time ago! The only problem I have with it is that the kind of neighbourhoods that Florence consists of just aren't built anymore like that. I've been there, the streets are microscopic, often less than 10ft wide. I'm all for pedestrian-friendly (or pedestrian-only) zones, but to hold any American city to the standard of medieval Europe seems a bit unfair to me. I think it's a better comparison when you look at two neighbourhoods built at the same time, because then you can really see the difference in design and not the difference in era. So I've picked two neighbourhoods real quick here, one in Atlanta and one in Amsterdam, both built in the sixties / seventies: