• grue@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Almost every small town’s main square is surrounded by mixed use buildings

    Pick any of those towns and actually look at it from an aerial view. You’ll see that that development pattern extends for a few blocks, at most, and is surrounded by a desert of single-family houses.

    Yes, a little bit of mixed use exists in each town. But to say that it’s “really common” in the US overall is absolutely false.

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      5 days ago

      Towns that have them ARE really common, which was my point.

      Yes, a little bit of mixed use exists in each town.

      Glad we agree on the only thing I actually claimed.