Reddit reviews Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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A former city planner who works as a consultant wrote a book called Walkable Cities who talks about that very issue. Hard to say how EPCOT would have worked out but he did take that issue into consideration. The plan was to have multiple underground levels to separate different types of traffic and to allow pedestrians to move about without that worry, much the way it is in the theme parks.
Here's some books from my library:
The Affordable Housing Reader - Basics on how affordable housing in the US works (or how it doesn't work...)
Cities for People/Walkable City/Death and Life of Great American Cities - Classics that really pertain to most things
The Public Wealth of Cities - How to leverage public/city assets to benefit the most amount of people
The Color of Law - How racism has shaped our cities
Happy City - Planning for social health
> especially leftist urbanism (anti suburbs and single family housing, pro mass-transit etc)
I'd be weary of calling this 'leftist urbanism,' since all of these are perfectly compatible with right-wing viewpoints, just handled very differently. You're looking more for sustainable urbanism and the social impacts of it. The books I have recommended above do all have a centrist or left lean to it though.
Excellent. Thanks.
Here are the Amazon links for those books for anyone interested.
> People can drive, from suburban to transit zones.
Oh god no, this is the big mistake right here. Please go read Walkable City by Jeff Speck, he specifically shows how this has failed time and again and is a bad idea. Building park and rides to get into town...oh god no, that's what Texas and DC do, it's a gigantic mistake and a huge waste of money and energy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008423170/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1