Malls, Chuck-E-Cheese, walkable neighborhoods and main streets, a lot of diners and such have been shut down in the past half century. Cities have kind of restructured around increased industry and productivity.
Parks aren’t even always useful, as they require driving to. And worst of all, most cities dictate only allow park use during daylight hours because they want to keep the homeless away.
Malls, Chuck-E-Cheese, walkable neighborhoods and main streets, a lot of diners and such have been shut down in the past half century. Cities have kind of restructured around increased industry and productivity.
Parks are making a comeback, though, I hear.
You forgot construction sites, drainage gullies, and random patches of forest.
Here in Portland, I’m not sure that the city and suburbs were any more walkable in the past than they are today.
Parks aren’t even always useful, as they require driving to. And worst of all, most cities dictate only allow park use during daylight hours because they want to keep the homeless away.
This is an American problem that is not applicable to other parts of the world
I think that’s precisely the issue. They should be more accessible to everyone, particularly on foot.
Chuck e cheese still exists. They look more like a Dave and busters inside though