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scrollaway on June 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

A walkable city doesn’t have to be an ant colony. American exceptionalism really is hard to grasp sometimes.

Take a look at a city like Brussels to understand how a capital city can be both walkable and high density without being Seoul.

masklinn on June 26, 2023 [–]

Hell you can probably look at Seoul, assuming it’s anything like Tokyo or London you have a very long tail of dense but pretty low outer rings.

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