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Here is another example with calorie labels (Do calorie labels actually reduce calorie intake?): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209007/

Comment · 4 years ago

Going to Toronto and seeing their highway along the water makes me sick. I can't believe they are cool with that. Boston at least realized their mistake and reversed it.

Comment · 4 years ago

In Vancouver, you'll usually have a few grocery stores in <10min walk because of the zoning. Commercial is usually every 4-6 blocks. It takes 10 mins to walk 4 blocks, as they are small in comparison to other cities I've lived in.

Most American cities were designed to do everything by car.

Comment · 4 years ago

Incredible map, I've never seen this before and I grew up here.

Zoning decides so much of the vibe of a city/neighbourhood. Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in.

Having lived in 6 other cities, other things Vancouver does well that aren't obvious on this map:

- Narrow streets (avoids traffic in side streets)

- No highways in the city (loud, dangerous, take up lots of space)

- Grass on both sides of sidewalk and trees on every street.

- Extremely high park density.

- Protected bike lanes everywhere.

- Side streets with random dead ends.

- Commercial streets every ~4-6 blocks that allow more traffic + bus routes.

- Rectangle structured blocks with numbers 1 direction and names the other.