You move above the streets, on the roofs. The streets would be free of pedestrians for the most part, imagine how many thousands of senseless deaths would be avoided yearly with people ran over by cars, bikes, buses, trains, etc.
Cagers would still find a way to complain and tear down half the buildings for parking.
>>2025254>bro cities would be much better if they were built like early civilization with no emergency services, no logistics, no social net, no farming techniques, less than 1000 people, easily able to be completely wiped out by disease, starvation, or war
>>2025265No I meant modern cities with all modern amenities but built like Catalhoyuk, so people would walk above street level safely away from vehicles
>>2025272For a brief period that was thought to be the future of city planning, though it was less a case of raising pedestrian walkways to the roof and more just burying highways. There are, however plenty of examples of both those kinds of deliberate segregation of modes, like Montreal's Ville Marie expressway and underground city, Boston burying the I-93 artery that bisects the city, London's pedway and Calgary's Skywalk - my favorite (albeit unrealized) version of this is the concept fot EPCOT
>>2025254>Catalhöyük>City of simple houses of mostly the same height>In modern urban areas there's a huge variety of buildings with different heights. Connecting buildings would require ramps/elevators/escalators which would be much more complex.>Also would need lots of infrastructure to make sure roofs are safe, well lit, etc. - again would be complex and cost a lot of money.>Long-term maintenance costs would also be high, as the pedestrian infrastructure would be subject to a lot of wear and tear at that elevation (both from use and weather), and are more difficult to repair on rooftops than they would be on ground level.Can't really see many situations where this would be practical. Maybe if the city were extremely dense and built on a mountain, like that one chinese city.
>>2025330>that one chinese citychongqing*
>>2025265>we have to design all infrastructure so that ambulances and tractor-trailers can navigate it>also so that rich people and old people can live in their dwelling until they die
>>2025272Many cities have a network of tunnels and skywalks which connect buildings with each other.
