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I grew up in a city of mostly rowhomes and I love them. Plan on buying one one day.

You still get walk-ability, sense of community and good population density (not as good as a high-rise but still good), but also more privacy, and the space is more conducive to raising a family than an apartment. Also they're cute as fuck and people can paint them different colors and have cool little gardens on their porches and stuff.

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[–] zan@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rowhouse blocks with a comprehensive network of bike trails and bike lanes, with corner lots dedicated to ground level commercial, and every couple blocks you take the block of grid out and put a park in, with a metro station within a mile, attached to the bike network.

[–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

corner lots dedicated to ground level commercial

Yeah corner stores are great. Get beer and a sandwich.

[–] zan@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Note they don't all need to be convenience stores and restaraunts. Put in small grocers, doctors, dentists, hairdressers, tool and regular libraries, schools. If you make the corner plots big enough I can put apartments on top rather than another house.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah. Where I'm from people call it "the extra fridge"

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been told that such stores are imaginary if they exist outside the bounds of gentrified New York. They are solely within those bounds, and we call them bodegas.

Source: I've listened to any semi-popular podcast.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

every couple blocks you take the block of grid out and put a park

This is not enough park. It should be hard to tell where the bike/foot paths end and the parks/managed foodscapes begin

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sicko-crowd sicko-biker

Paradox is afraid to make this kind of powerful infrastructure a possibility in Cities Skylines 2