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Iowans were fooled by a prank to make a busy area of Des Moines... walkable (ody.sh)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its more, I'm uncertain how much housing is already at the location. I feel an important component to a walkable city is housing(apartments, condos, etc).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's fair. Typical US cities have two huge problems. The "missing middle", which are those medium density places to live like you mentioned. Also, they've catered the downtowns to businesses instead of to people. As it turns out, the people are the important part of the city. Remote work really exposed that flaw in places like San Francisco.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, really throughout the US this is an issue of only businesses but no homes n downtowns. My understanding is that some downtown's are not increasing rents or even decreasing them due to the amount of people leaving them spurred by being able to work remotely in cheaper homes.