This is why I'm distrustful towards any initiatives aiming to make a city "more liveable for humans".

First they entice you with a vision of a place where everything is within walking distance, then they do this.

SilverBirch 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

This isn't the type of market you pop down to and buy your weekly shop, this is wholesale. It's largely where restaurants will go to to buy their meat for the day/week. Smithfields opens at midnight and closes at 7am. You can walk past at mid-day and it's just a fairly run-down part of london in the middle of other much nicer parts of London. This is nothing to do with walkable cities.

	▲	Tade0 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		I'm aware of its purpose. The connection here is that restaurants are part of the appeal of walkable cities and now their life will be made harder. Net effect will of course be an increase in prices. You need places like these in a city because they shoulder a huge burden, namely logistics, which are particularly hard in densely populated areas.

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lbreakjai 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

What's more liveable and walking-distance than a market within walking distance from where you live? This has nothing to do with urbanism, this is purely capitalistic efficiency.

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Tade0 7 months ago | parent [-]

Please read my comment again.

I'm complaining about places to go within walking distance, such as this market, being removed despite declarations from the city authorities that they're making the place more liveable.

	▲	yyuugg 7 months ago \| parent [-]
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