Comments on: Tilting at Windmills in Minnesota http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/12/tilting-at-windmills-in-minnesota/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/12/tilting-at-windmills-in-minnesota/comment-page-1/#comment-48321 DJB Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:21 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=20311#comment-48321 The root of the problem of walkability is a lack of density and separated land uses. It's quite right to say that these things tend to change slowly, but it's not impossible to fix the problem (especially if you move out of suburbia). Thousands of vibrant urban neighborhoods across the country today are testament to that. Find a PART of your city that is already on the right track and build on that success. Make something to point to and say "if you lived there you wouldn't need to drive to everything". There are plenty of good precedents even in a place like LA. The root of the problem of walkability is a lack of density and separated land uses. It’s quite right to say that these things tend to change slowly, but it’s not impossible to fix the problem (especially if you move out of suburbia). Thousands of vibrant urban neighborhoods across the country today are testament to that.

Find a PART of your city that is already on the right track and build on that success. Make something to point to and say “if you lived there you wouldn’t need to drive to everything”. There are plenty of good precedents even in a place like LA.

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