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Paul,<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>No city
planner was involved in the development of Venice. It was done in the
1910s or 1920s, before city planners did much in LA.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>As for
lacking appeal, the walk streets of Venice are very-expensive,
difficult-to-obtain places to live. Of course, the fact that the walk
streets end at the Pacific Ocean and Venice Beach might have
something to do with it.<br><br>
--C<br><br>
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At 02:48 PM 11/10/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Charlotte Wolter wrote:<br><br>
> I'm working on
an area of LA, Venice, where we have a <br>
> phenomenon called locally "walk streets." These
"streets" are, in <br>
> fact, wide sidewalks. Houses front onto these sidewalks. There is no
<br>
> access for cars, and bike riding is not encouraged (but not <br>
> prohibited) because the "walk street" can have many
pedestrians at <br>
> times. Residents who have cars, access the houses and parking via
<br>
> alleys behind the houses.<br><br>
highway=pedestrian<br>
bicycle=destination<br><br>
Though I question your city planner's desicion to allow alleyway
access<br>
to homes via car; to date no high density development that has
attempted<br>
this in the US has been successful, usually it dies a horrible death<br>
when the alleyways get congested. Exclusively car-free<br>
communities have been far more successful in the US by comparison; I<br>
think LA needs to address the underlying problem of moving more
people<br>
instead of moving more vehicles before they can even think about<br>
high-density development.<br><br>
> I was busily
converting these from "residential street" to <br>
> "pedestrian," when I came across work by someone else who
was using <br>
> "footway." Which do you think is correct? I don't
care (though I <br>
> think the dotted red line for "footway" looks cooler on
the rendered <br>
> map than the grey of "pedestrian"). I just want to get it
right.<br><br>
Don't tag for the renderer, you can always run your own renderer to
get<br>
the appearance you want for your map.<br><br>
<br>
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