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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I get that, what I meant when I said that was that it would be interesting to see what Calgary would look like if we adopted a 'chaotic but smart' approach.
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That's the thing that's so disruptive about "chaotic but smart" is that you lose control of what things end up looking like in the end. What the guy in the video would say is that we're intuitively good community builders and that if left to community residents to design their communities they'll likely do a good job of it. I think the challenge is making sure it all works together between communities.
I think though that if people were to actually design communities that they wanted it would be a return to a grid-like land use pattern highly promoting walking and cycling with smaller community shops located of high traffic areas.
For existing communities I think you'd see some of the major boulevards running through a suburb scaled down. Lanes taken back, speeds reduced significantly, bike lanes.