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Building a village designed for people (not cars) near Phoenix

https://youtu.be/hf0L3blkNA4

Just outside sprawling Phoenix, developers have built what they call “the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US”. Modeled after European v...

Nothing spectacular but an interesting car free alternative to suburbia with high urban density and local small shops. If large enough could have it's own school and more amenities.

7 comments

LibertyLizard

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Needs more green space (which I have to say about almost every urbanist project it seems) but otherwise very cool.

I really hope they can build more for these across the country. But having a big buildable lot right across the street from a transit line is kind of a specific situation.

colourlesspony

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Maybe, I think it's designed like that to maximize shade. Which is important in phoenix. I think it would be nice to have a lot more mesquite and palo verde trees but dumb people complain about them when they the flower because the make a tone of pollen. Also the mesquites make huge messes of tree sap and mesquite beans.

LibertyLizard

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Gardens and vegetation are compatible with the general design I think. Lots of things will grow better in the shade in Phoenix anyway.

Bring on the mess. The world wasn’t meant to be clean.

LarmyOfLone

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Even just slightly more green would be nice. It might also a question of real estate costs in that area. And walking distance around the village. And climate. Really it's more like an old European city, not a village, but they probably needed a name to say it's different.

lemmyreader

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Cool.

LarmyOfLone

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Cooler than the city by 16° celsius!

lemmyreader

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😮 ! 😀