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.
Nah, no reason to give the streets over entirely to cars. Just make cities the old-fashioned way and add trams/subways/buses/bike lanes.
>>2025365>Many cities have a network of tunnels and skywalks which connect buildings with each other.And urbanists hate them. They separate shoppers and city workers from the vermin that occupy the streets/sidewalks.
>>2025328So the problem with this was budget?Are there any (i don't know what you would call them) Urbanist architecture experts that have found other issues?Concerning the budget, if a brand new city were to be built on undeveloped land, would it be economical to the build 1-2 levels of underground traffic all at once. The increased profits in surface real estate seems big
>>2027310It wouldn't be economical to build a city out of nothing anyway. I think the only reasonable approach is to mandate that any building over x height in city center areas has to make provisions for connection to a pedestrian and tram terrace.
>>2027310You mean EPCOT itself? There were many issues, not all of them budgetary - mostly related to folks not being especially keen on living in a city with an unironic Andrew Ryan-type mogul as its mayor-cum-CEO dictator
>>2027307My main gripe with skywalks/undergrounds is that theyre inaccessible during certain periods, or in the case of open air pedways become possible ambush points to be used by hoodlums
>>2025254how would cripples get on the roof?
>>2025254In my country trafficable roofs on residential buildings will require a complete overhaul of the building code and national standards and push construction costs through the roof.
>>2025272or we could just ban cars you retard
>>2029595You'd probably need to revamp all the property and trespass laws as well. It basically wouldn't work outside a culture that's been doing it from the start.
