Is there a more poorly laid out city than Lincoln?
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Is there a more poorly laid out city than Lincoln?
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East Lincoln is 100x better than west getting North and South. It’s still awful though. Terrible planning all around for growth
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Basically any city that's more than 200 years old on the planet.
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Are there any well planned cities in America?
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Go visit Boston, then come back to Lincoln and kiss the feet of the city planners.
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DC is pretty fucking terrible too. Those east coast cities have the excuse that back when they were created they had to be difficult for a marching army.
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I lived in Peachtree City, GA for several years back in the early 90's. A completely planned residential community. Each "village" had a commercial/retail section at it's core, surrounded by multi-family housing, then a ring of smaller single family homes, then an outer ring of much larger single family homes. As the villages "bumped up" against one another, the large single family homes all remained next to each other and you worked your way back to the commercial/retail core of the next village.
The whole shebang was connected by over 90 miles of golf cart paths, which everyone took to school, work, church and the grocery store. The 4th of July golf cart parades were epic. Plus - IIRC - five golf courses laid out in between the homes, etc.
Yes, there are well planned cities in America. Peachtree City, GA is definitely one of them (IMO).
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No offense brother, but that scenario scares the shit out of me. I'll take a messy city any day over any "planned" community. To each his own... Shakespeare, not thE kErnEl
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Garden Plain, KS mostly because of their newest city council member
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Is that a city?
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That sounds cool
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So far the consensus to OP's question is yes, there are many cities that are more poorly laid out.
Aside from people talking about cities in the US (that are all less than 400 years old, most of them much younger) go to Africa or India sometime and it will blow your mind and the sprawl and ancientness of the cities.
Ex: "Yes these are artificial lakes used for flood control." -- FIL
"Oh cool, when were they built?" -- me
"This sign says construction completed in 1583." -- FIL
Me from 1776 USA
Aside from people talking about cities in the US (that are all less than 400 years old, most of them much younger) go to Africa or India sometime and it will blow your mind and the sprawl and ancientness of the cities.
Ex: "Yes these are artificial lakes used for flood control." -- FIL
"Oh cool, when were they built?" -- me
"This sign says construction completed in 1583." -- FIL
Me from 1776 USA
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Tbh Omaha is one of the easiest cities to get around out there. Grid pattern of the streets really helps
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Denver proper gives Lincoln a run for its money.
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Roundabouts? They say they're safer but they are fucking stupid, along with the 19 million stoplights in town. At least we're having a boom of CBD/Delta 8 shops popping up, we're ready for Biden to legalize weed next year. That'll help next fall
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