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Village of Kenmore, just north of Buffalo city limits. Buffalo's "first suburb." In 2009, the American Planning Association named Kenmore "One of the Top 10 Great Neighborhoods" in the United States.
It's grown by leaps and bounds over the past 20 or so years, to become one of Atlanta's very small amount of truly walkable neighborhoods.
You could actually live in midtown Atlanta now without a car and do decently well on a daily basis, if you worked in midtown or downtown (or remotely).
I wouldn’t call Midtown Atlanta a streetcar suburb though. It’s a full blown urban neighborhood. Something like Inman Park or Sweet Auburn or Virginia Highland would be a streetcar suburb.
Coulda fooled me! That looks like it has always been there. I really like the look of that. Usually, mixed use urban developments don't have that traditional type of architecture.
Orlando Florida, is arguably one the most car dependent metropolitan areas in the country. Except for just east of its central businesses district, there exists some surprisingly walkable residential areas that make up the the neighborhoods of South Eola and Thornton park.
These are two distinct neighborhoods but as equally walkable as they are adjacent to each other and both walkable to the central business district.
Thornton park is a well preserved 1920s era neighborhood that borders the east side of Orlando’s urban park ‘Lake Eola’. It has a central commercialized Main Street area surrounded by bungalows and small scale apartment buildings.
South Eola borders the south side of lake Eola park and consists more of new urban development with higher density, such as mix use high rises, condo buildings and townhomes/row houses.
Both neighborhoods are far removed from any major roadways and strip malls that Florida is known for. All the streets between these areas are small streets with pedestrian friendly intersections that are mostly just 4 way stops or roundabout. Plus bike lanes and trails.
Walkable to Publix grocery store, a multitude of restaurants, bars, gym, salons, UPS, library, dentist, doctors, movie theater, performing arts center, banks, coffee shops, boutiques, the park, Orlando’s central business district including transit stops for Amtrak and Orlando’s commuter rail line ‘sunrail’ which has an airport line planned that will connect it to Orlando’s new brightline station with rail service to Miami.
Minneapolis is almost entirely streetcar suburbia outside of downtown. It has a reputation as a car city but large swathes are also walkable, especially the inner south side and areas around the University of Minnesota.
Coulda fooled me! That looks like it has always been there. I really like the look of that. Usually, mixed use urban developments don't have that traditional type of architecture.
Yeah, they did an amazing job with this neighborhood, and they connected it seamlessly with the surrounding existing neighborhoods. What's really cool is that it replaced a cement plant, this was definitely not a desirable area.
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