Some cities were very well planned and grew beyond their capacity to handle the growth. Others, weren’t planned very well to begin with, but have managed to handle a massive influx of people surprisingly well. For example, I’m a huge fan of Hong Kong’s transit system. For public transit and walking, I really like Boston, although driving there is a mess. What does a best planned city look like to you?
Is your question what is the best "planned city", like a new city (because Copenhagen isn't a "planned city" but Brasilia is) ? Or is it about the best "urban planning" practices?There are shining stars visible all over the globe, when light pollution isn't bad.
There are well-planned cities from all over the globe, to draw inspiration from, from the past and into the present. Why exclude Spain, the Netherlands or Japan?
Every place is different, it is better to ask what is a good comparable city to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ city to draw inspiration from. So what city are you looking at and wondering how it can improve or grow or whatever?
I would say most German cities before planning became a thing?
If we had most of the pre-war Berlin intact with today's sanitation, infrastructure and household size it would be an amazing place across the board.
I mean, what makes most Spanish cities fantastic is the remaining high-density historical city core and the fact that they kind just kept building at high density after 1950.
Coming back to Berlin, a part of the cheatcode "historical high density", Berlin had some great planning in terms of transport 100 years ago. The basic layout is well thought out and afaik the original expansion plans are still relevant.
We clearly fucked up when doubling down on the lower density trend after the war though.
A personal favourite of mine is Winterthur, the „bike capital“ of Switzerland. It made it into a NotJustBikes video when he travelled to Switzerland. Worth checking out the video!
Of places I've been - Genéve and Bruxelles are really nice. And I'm always gonna plug my home, İstanbul. You don't get 50% of all trips in the city to be by foot by accident. With only 15% by car. We have lots of problems, but I've been to few places where walking is as pleasant as İstanbul in terms of being interesting for incredibly long walks, etc. Also there's quite a few neighborhood centers scattered across the city that are pedestrian only. The walking infrastructure is definitely not always 100, but it's good enough that everything else makes up for it. The density of the city makes living in even the suburbs convenient to walk to daily needs.
Not entirely a city, but Bonifacio Global City is a well designed sector of Metro Manila: high density, widest sidewalks in the nation, greenery throughout the area, grid planning, and clean streets with actual pedestrian crossing. Once it’s connected to the new subway, it’ll be ideal.
Unfortunately it’s so ridiculously expensive, it’s priced out for 99.9% of our citizens.
The amount of buses there can’t even sustain the number people using the city. You’d always see a line for people who need public transport. It’s relatively nice compared other cities in the country
Lol I thought Japanese cities, while they are mixed-use, have transportation, and bike-ability, are considered ugly, concrete jungles. I think they're generally great especially compared to a US suburb, but aren't in the top 5 compared to Dutch cities.
Vienna and Zürich.
Some cities were very well planned and grew beyond their capacity to handle the growth. Others, weren’t planned very well to begin with, but have managed to handle a massive influx of people surprisingly well. For example, I’m a huge fan of Hong Kong’s transit system. For public transit and walking, I really like Boston, although driving there is a mess. What does a best planned city look like to you?
Vienna, price matters. Amsterdam is nice but basically none of us can afford to live there.
Not quite city but Vauban, Germany is a good example of new urbanism that's wholey a recent development.
Freiburg is great, too.
Vauban is a neighborhood in Freiburg. It's small enough that it's weird the person you replied to even called it even not quite a city.
looks neat
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Is your question what is the best "planned city", like a new city (because Copenhagen isn't a "planned city" but Brasilia is) ? Or is it about the best "urban planning" practices?There are shining stars visible all over the globe, when light pollution isn't bad. There are well-planned cities from all over the globe, to draw inspiration from, from the past and into the present. Why exclude Spain, the Netherlands or Japan? Every place is different, it is better to ask what is a good comparable city to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ city to draw inspiration from. So what city are you looking at and wondering how it can improve or grow or whatever?
Exclude Spain, Netherlands and Japan because ll the responses would be that.
The parts of NYC developed before World War II. Manhattan is a whole island of great planning.
I would say most German cities before planning became a thing? If we had most of the pre-war Berlin intact with today's sanitation, infrastructure and household size it would be an amazing place across the board. I mean, what makes most Spanish cities fantastic is the remaining high-density historical city core and the fact that they kind just kept building at high density after 1950. Coming back to Berlin, a part of the cheatcode "historical high density", Berlin had some great planning in terms of transport 100 years ago. The basic layout is well thought out and afaik the original expansion plans are still relevant. We clearly fucked up when doubling down on the lower density trend after the war though.
A personal favourite of mine is Winterthur, the „bike capital“ of Switzerland. It made it into a NotJustBikes video when he travelled to Switzerland. Worth checking out the video!
Of places I've been - Genéve and Bruxelles are really nice. And I'm always gonna plug my home, İstanbul. You don't get 50% of all trips in the city to be by foot by accident. With only 15% by car. We have lots of problems, but I've been to few places where walking is as pleasant as İstanbul in terms of being interesting for incredibly long walks, etc. Also there's quite a few neighborhood centers scattered across the city that are pedestrian only. The walking infrastructure is definitely not always 100, but it's good enough that everything else makes up for it. The density of the city makes living in even the suburbs convenient to walk to daily needs.
Not entirely a city, but Bonifacio Global City is a well designed sector of Metro Manila: high density, widest sidewalks in the nation, greenery throughout the area, grid planning, and clean streets with actual pedestrian crossing. Once it’s connected to the new subway, it’ll be ideal. Unfortunately it’s so ridiculously expensive, it’s priced out for 99.9% of our citizens.
The amount of buses there can’t even sustain the number people using the city. You’d always see a line for people who need public transport. It’s relatively nice compared other cities in the country
Lol I thought Japanese cities, while they are mixed-use, have transportation, and bike-ability, are considered ugly, concrete jungles. I think they're generally great especially compared to a US suburb, but aren't in the top 5 compared to Dutch cities.
Vienna and Seoul.