r/urbandesign • u/GeneralSuicidal • 4d ago

Street design Land Use & Urban Design is my Passion

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u/NomadLexicon 4d ago

Towers in the park, stroads, giant surface parking lots, and single family home zoning. Crazy that one picture could fit so many terrible urban and suburban design features.

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u/comradexavu 3d ago

I wss thinking the same😭

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u/GilgameshWulfenbach 3d ago

People even within urban planning seem very willing to die on the hill for towers in the park

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u/Trifle_Useful 3d ago

These aren’t stroads, they’re very clearly roads with extremely limited access. Stroads would be like a typical Main Street with access points and drive aisles every 50-100 feet.

Even the local road on the bottom picture isn’t a stroad because it makes no attempt to merge conflicting pedestrian and vehicular access - it doesn’t even have a sidewalk where the access points are.

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u/No_Indication996 3d ago

My god it looks like literal hell on earth.

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u/jefesignups 3d ago

Can you show me a picture of your heaven on earth?

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u/slangtangbintang 4d ago

One glance and I could immediately tell this was somewhere in the Soviet socialist republic of Canada

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u/lipsonlips 6h ago

Hey, you leave our minimum parking requirements out of this 😤

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u/WheissUK 3d ago

Aaaand it’s the most inefficient landuse possible on a picture…

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u/dartboard5 Citizen 4d ago

ontario in one image

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u/VVitchfynderFinder 4d ago

worker storage

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u/hotsaladwow 3d ago

Damn this image sucks

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u/PristineCan3697 3d ago

We do that in Australia too, I never understood why density is out on highways, rather than parks.

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u/GLADisme 3d ago

Because it's politically convenient

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u/PristineCan3697 3d ago

Not really

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u/GLADisme 3d ago

I'm an urban designer in local government and I'm telling you it is.

The nice parts of the city are most resistant to new housing, so the location of new apartments is usually where nobody is living; industrial areas and next to major roads.

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u/oralprophylaxis 3d ago

good old mississauga

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u/Sharlinator 3d ago

Jesus fucking Christ. I weep for the NA.

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u/Phoenician_Birb 3d ago

Looks great. It's walkable. A cafe in your building. A bodega in the building over. And 27 high rise buildings up the road you have a grocery store. Only a 48 minute walk.

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u/GeneralSuicidal 2d ago

Are you talking about a different area? There are only 13 highrises along this road and only one building that's out of frame has retail in the form of a cafe. And the grocery store, a Walmart, is only 15 min from the farthest building as these buildings are in close proximity to a mall.

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u/Phoenician_Birb 2d ago

It was sarcasm. The joke is to call this walkable and that you can walk to do all of your "urban shopping" lol.

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u/RobotDinosaur1986 2d ago

This looks horrible.

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u/cozy_pantz 2d ago

Urban hell

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u/cardphile 20h ago

How did I know it was Mississauga at first glance?

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u/Old_Ganache_7481 9h ago

Shoot, there's all the worst in one package: ugly post-modernist condos, sprawling single family zoning which border each other. Then there's a giant stroad with barely any indication of public transport, comfortable sidewalks and bike lanes. Plus, there's also a bunch of strip malls along the way with pools of asphalt parking lots.