>no town center, a church, a market place, a university, smelter, wood lumber camp at the center
How would you improve this?
probably Nevada or New Mexico
are there shops or something on the other side of that?
no, the way it works is that a bunch of these suburbs all funnel into one mega-mart shopping center, which everyone drives their cars to. It's probably a couple miles up the road from this suburb
A single trip to the shopping center will last you a week or so
Imagine acually buying a house in a desert.
I like this, also across the road should be mixed use buildings with shops like you see in downtown areas build before the 1950's
The problem is that every place that actually makes developments like that is ungodly expensive, all those houses end upwards $500k
they are bigger than European houses
I'd honestly prefer to be surrounded by a little nature in close vicinity to a town.
and imagine doing that but on national scale r-right
fug
I mean it is kinda similar here, but there are smaller shops scattered in between so that you don't have to go to the massive one
I happen to live within walking distance of a huge one near me, but yeah it's still very car oriented. We do have a train station next to it though, and a few buses that go there so there are other options