It’s nice to see more car free places, but it’s also hard not to criticise the capitalistic hellscape in which your neighbourhood has a CEO

  • TheCrispyDud@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is also in my city which during summer feels like an actual hellscape. It’s a great idea overall but damn if it’s the last city I’d pick for walking about 40% of the time.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      The development’s buildings… are clustered together intimately to create inviting courtyards for social gatherings and paved – not asphalt – “paseos”, a word used in Spanish-speaking parts of the US south-west to denote plazas or walkways for strolling.

      Importantly, such an arrangement provides relieving shade from the scorching sun – temperatures in these walkways have been measured at 90F (32C) on days when the pavement outside Culdesac is 120F (48C)

      TL;DR: shade is a thing.