Liveability, Walkability and Driving Speeds in Taiwanese City Planning

[mad_masala]

the cow asking the robot for insights

[DKaoshuing]

@yyy

@BHL4life

You deserve a Kowloon walled city in response to that.

That gave me a good chuckle!

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@Marco

Again, I disagree. This is a design that has been used for a thousand years. Gardens and lawns were only for royalty and it’s unbelievably wasteful. I walk on the road every day and people slow down or go around me.

Turning a space into a decorative monoculture and going out of your way to (1) keep it trimmed within regulation height, (2) kill the endless weeds that turn up in it, and (3) keep it regulation watered, so that possibly maybe some kids can throw frisbees on it or something, yes that can reasonably be considered wasteful. And that’s what most people in NA call a lawn, but it’s definitely not most people’s definition of a garden. Gardens can be decorative, nutritional/medicinal, or a combination. Not wasteful if you know what you’re doing (and don’t have a city council full of idiots telling you what to do with it).

@BHL4life

you can see the Gong yu’s in di hua street have courtyards for example

Make Asian architecture great again! Bring back hutongs and siheyuans and stuff!

Still a lot of Hutongs in Tainan, a few around me here,

[Incubus]

@Marco

Taiwan often has walkways in the front of its shops in that Japanese tunnel style,

Those are called arcades I believe.

[BHL4life]

wanhua hutongs!

[CopyCat]

I’ve seen those near the sea outside of Taoyuan. Never knew what they were called though.

[Andrew]

@DKaoshuing

Still a lot of Hutongs in Tainan, a few around me here

I never really saw the attraction of hutongs, at least the famous ones in Beijing. I once spent a cold couple of days in December endlessly walking around them with a Russian girl I’d met randomly there, an architectural student on holiday who was fascinated by them.

I just saw a load of garbage, discarded Nongfu Spring bottles, and old washing machines and paint cans, plus the occasional old dude in underwear wondering what two foreigners were doing in his courtyard. Enthusiastic though she was, it was really hard to feign interest in the old Beijing architecture.

[BHL4life]

Dilapidated architecture that should really be preserved is nothing new in china.

They purposely let those areas go to ruin so they can raze the areas for new apartments and claim they are improving the areas. Same thing in shanghai with the shikumen terrace houses.

I think the architecture around the hutongs and forbidden city in central beijing is brilliant. Even though something like 90% of them have been torn down there’s still a decent amount there and those streets have a lot of atmosphere. They are in squalid conditions sure, but that’s thanks to the CCP.

[yyy]

@mad_masala

the cow asking the robot for insights

In another thread? I don’t see any cow-robot love-in here.

[yyy]

@BHL4life

They purposely let those areas go to ruin so they can raze the areas for new apartments and claim they are improving the areas.

Same thing in Canada, at least with buildings that don’t deserve to be preserved. Pity about the long term tenants who get evicted from them though…

[mad_masala]

check the post I was replying to

[mad_masala]

Ooops! apparently it got removed or maybe I replied in the wrong thread???

[BHL4life]

The ones in china do deserve to be preserved. almost all of the historic shanghai, the walled city where chinese lived (before the foreign settlements were built) has been demolished. so much for nationalism.

[Gmu]

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

[DKaoshuing]

@Andrew

@DKaoshuing

Still a lot of Hutongs in Tainan, a few around me here

I never really saw the attraction of hutongs, at least the famous ones in Beijing. I once spent a cold couple of days in December endlessly walking around them with a Russian girl I’d met randomly there, an architectural student on holiday who was fascinated by them.

I just saw a load of garbage, discarded Nongfu Spring bottles, and old washing machines and paint cans, plus the occasional old dude in underwear wondering what two foreigners were doing in his courtyard. Enthusiastic though she was, it was really hard to feign interest in the old Beijing architecture.

There are some really nice restored ones as well as in Taiwan. Interesting this one has big air con.

This coffee cafe in old house in KHH

@DKaoshuing

@DKaoshuing

[/quote][quote=“tango42, post:21, topic:179304, full:true”]
I think this is the location by the gate.

Donutes
No. 117-1, Shengli Road, Zuoying
07 581 3899
https://goo.gl/maps/hL36kBJhWg93QWq49

Yes, it is

[rooftopclown]

Taiwanese city planning. Excuse me?