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Originally Posted by Trae
Really? Then what is that there on the second link then:
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I saw the Legacy office park link and the open air mall link. In any case, there's nothing in Plano remotely like South Norwalk, and your claims are absurd.
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Originally Posted by Trae
Like what was said earlier, there are plenty of quaint downtowns in the DFW and Houston metro areas. I
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Now you're changing the subject.
Every place in the U.S. has random "quaint" downtowns. Now you're pivoting away form the "if we pack sprawl into density aka Irvine/Woodlands/Plano it becomes the same as a 19th century downtown" to "Texas has 19th century downtowns like everywhere else in U.S. so is the same as South Norwalk". In any case, no.
The Northeast Corridor is really the only place in the U.S. where you have extensive pre-auto suburban enclaves, with the small footprint streetfronts, built around railroads or streetcars. You can't replicate this through new urbanist sprawl and you can't replicate this through random legacy suburban downtowns.
There are some other, later versions of prewar urbanity in Chicago and Midwest, and on West Coast and here and there elsewhere, but of a different sort, and in the Sunbelt these enclaves are rarer than hen's teeth. But you aren't gonna replicate a pre-zoning streetscape in 2018.