Why can't most towns in america look like this. why is it only a pleasant oddity instead of normal layout?

why can't most towns in america look like this. why is it only a pleasant oddity instead of normal layout?

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Because urban sprawl. Pre 1950 city centers are designed still primarily around foot traffic, with post 1850~ designed also around transportation hubs.

Deadwood is 95.87% White.

Any amount of traffic fucks it up. I think the biggest example of this is Moab, Utah. It's a small town that is right next to famous rock formations and off road areas. A single weekend, thousands of vehicles can pour in on their single main road and cause chaos. They made a decision not to expand, if you don't build it they won't come type philosophy. But it backfired, more are coming and now their infrastructure is fucked.

parking sucks

This is the answer.

Is that the town they filmed the movie Phantoms in?

there has to be many different ways to build this type of city. a few thoughts:

-this is the only example of an urban village built with modern conveniences

-the only part of the city that looks like an average rural village. it's small

-they seem to be trying to build on what is known as "the main highway"

-the village is a bit too small, they're building too much and the view is too limited(some may ask if this is a bad thing? for me, it looks like such. they have to fit a lot less of this town, but it gives the designer the chance to showcase some of the most exciting and unique cities in america at the same time, something that is hard to do).

-the town itself looks kind of strange, it's not in any sense "natural", and it seems to be built from a completely different

Deadwood is what the assholes call "flyover America", and that's a good thing.
I've lived in such a town, and watched as degenerates from Seattle came here after shitting up Seattle. The left wing are like goddamned locus - they destroy where they settle then move to where white people build a beautiful community and shit that up too.

the short answer is: capitalism. Not being ironic. Brick is more expensive to build with than wood and plastic. The perpetual push for growth means things get cheaper, more prevalent, and lower quality...forever and ever, amen.

>city centers
what

Sadly this. The modern world is all about growth for the sake of growth. Cultures and history are being erased so someone can drive their fat ass to Walmart to save a few bucks on sweat pants and soda. Death can't come soon enough

Terrible parking

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>Pre 1950
>post 1850~

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Because it funded big scale historic preservation and historic rehabilitation projects using taxes from legalized gambling.

its pretty common, just in towns that never developed into large scale suburbs, or if they did, these old downtowns are off to the side of the major development.

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Have you ever been to deadwood? I live pissing distance from it and the parking is fucking excellent. Behind every one of these buildings is some tokyo tier parking structure with rates that are the lowest ive seen throughout the usa. The roads always look like OPs pic because nobody parks on the street.

Legacy buildings are so much better than the meme shacks being built today.

This is how most cities in Ontario are laid out, aside from the major cities.

It's really not that complicated. In the older states, you can very much find natural foot traffic cities that gave first priority to foot traffic. In the expanding west, especially post civil war, you begin to see this city planning begin to merge with city planning around rail systems. Thus, the town lives around the rail in addition to the main road sort of layout. Likewise, post 1950 you begin to see changes in city layout designed to take advantage of the interstate system.

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It would require Americans to accept medium to high density housing as the default living option like it was in 1800s urban areas

Suburbs and ubiquity of detached housing for the urban middle classes are the root cause for almost everything wrong with towns and cities nowadays

You still wrote "post 1850" which made absolutely no sense.

Lego-kun, are you illiterate?

It's 1850-1950. Or, post 1850 and pre 1950. I.e, after rail, but before interstate.

If this is a town in Colorado than the answer is because the cost of living there is crazy stupid.

Its Deadwood SD
Dont tell Colorado but the cost of living there is crazy low