I think this exactly describes our neighborhood. Our garden backs on to a park. On the other side of the park is a foundation school. Next to the foundation school are kindergartens and daycares of all different ages. Shops are all a seven minute walk away (closer ones are under construction).
The pavements are extremely wide and beautifully planted, with cycle paths everywhere. There’s a play area every few hundred metres, as well as benches, shades, exercise machines etc.
It is dense (approximately 25000 people in 2.5 Square Kms, but that’s what makes it possible to have wide pavements and tons of facilities—they’ll actually be used.
Altogether it makes for an environment where people prefer to walk (it helps that the roads are only one lane each way and with limited parking), and so we constantly bump into friends whenever we go out.
This is very different to the area I grew up, (entirely single family homes) where every single thing was at least a 5 to 10 minute walk, and people drove everywhere.
I think this exactly describes our neighborhood. Our garden backs on to a park. On the other side of the park is a foundation school. Next to the foundation school are kindergartens and daycares of all different ages. Shops are all a seven minute walk away (closer ones are under construction).
The pavements are extremely wide and beautifully planted, with cycle paths everywhere. There’s a play area every few hundred metres, as well as benches, shades, exercise machines etc.
It is dense (approximately 25000 people in 2.5 Square Kms, but that’s what makes it possible to have wide pavements and tons of facilities—they’ll actually be used.
Altogether it makes for an environment where people prefer to walk (it helps that the roads are only one lane each way and with limited parking), and so we constantly bump into friends whenever we go out.
This is very different to the area I grew up, (entirely single family homes) where every single thing was at least a 5 to 10 minute walk, and people drove everywhere.