*With lots of windows
You could have trees and flowers all over the place, and tiered garden courtyards to let light down into the centers of hills, and stepped cutaways or steep slopes where you want things a little denser. Life would be slow because FALGSC, and you could relax on the patio of a pub drinking a beer, watching the sun go down behind the trees while kids play with dogs. Maybe I'm laying it on a little thick with this description but it would be nice right?
You'd have to make sure rain could get down to the water table though. The floor plan would need to be porous so water could flow through the soil between rooms.
And there'd need to be some way to service plumbing and the power grid. It could work like a normal city, or you could have a network of fireproof service tunnels with fire doors and lots of access to the surface. There might also be service rails for moving stuff around, like furniture and boxes of belongings. These service rails might connect up with actual train stations for when people need to move stuff between cities.
In cold climates the underground might be as walkable as the surface.
Elevated trams if we can make them quiet, otherwise put em underground.
alright that's it, those are my urban shire ideas
Not the entire community. Bulbous and Frodo were both landed gentry. That's why they have a servant doing their gardening
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I really wish that green roofs were more regular/accessible options. They're so pretty!
Yeah I was thinking a hill would be like an entire city block. Also, interesting links, thanks for this reply.
Yeah I was thinking a hill would be like an entire city block.
i'd be down for that or just living in a cave. or even totally underground and we can just have a huge park topside.
Aren’t you just describing what the suburbs were originally pitched as?
in my head i'm aiming for density closer to low-rise apartment blocks, and it'd be mixed use and walkable so no one needs a car.
to achieve this density i think you need a mix of walkable slopes, steeper slopes, and stepped cutaways (but no sheer drops of more than one story).
also terracing would be good, so people can have little flat areas outside their apartments to maybe grow veggies in or just socialize with neighbors
also you might find this short playlist by Not Just Bikes interesting
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_O00y2lDv8oOqBhla0uabX
tl;dr car-dependence is the main thing that makes modern suburbs bad