20-Minute Neighborhoods
This one is easy: people like the idea of this but still want a 4x3 300 square meter house on a quarter acre block. Or in the US is often an acre lot within a city, which is crazy to me.<p>And this just doesn’t scale. This is why communities are completely car dependent.<p>Singapore is mentioned in this article but guess what? Living is much denser in Singapore. Obviously they’re constrained by geography. But it get a lot of benefit from this.<p>Where space isn’t an issue people in the US and Australia at least have consistently chosen space and car dependence over convenience.