Charles Marohn has a premise: auto-oriented design produces a lousy return on investment. It’s wasteful – and we can’t afford it.
And then he brilliantly illustrates his point – this time in another piece for Better! Cities & Towns.
At its nastiest and most decrepit, fighting the negative auto traffic speeding by and the absence of pedestrian connectivity, lacking all natural advantage from the neighboring land uses that would ideally accompany a traditional neighborhood design, the old and blighted traditional commercial block still outperforms the new, auto-oriented development by 41 percent.
Get the proof here.
