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Originally Posted by eschaton
There's no particular reason every city needs to pretend it's in the middle of a forest.
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of course.
we're just talking about personal preferences here.
my preference is for urban living with a shit-ton of greenery.
i'm highly biased on this matter because that's exactly what i'm used to.
as i said earlier, north end boston (or any old medieval european city center for that matter) is an utterly fantastic place to visit and walk around and get lost in, but for living, i prefer a little more green space breathing room than that. that's why i said i'd prefer to live in back bay over beacon hill or north end in boston.
of course, it's totally fine if you prefer the opposite. we're all different, and that's ok.
bringing this back to minneapolis, it's a fairly typical midwest city with wide streets, front yard setbacks, detached housing, etc. it's never going to look like anything in 18th/19th century boston. this new plan to bring density to its SFH streetcar neighborhoods (which it has in abundance) by allowing SFH replacement with flat buildings (and other ADU's) is the most realistic and practical way to bring a higher level of urbanism to a city with a very different urban form than the colonial cities of the east coast.