It's car optimized because the 110F weather makes it un-walkable in the first place. When I lived in a walkable city, I would prefer to walk 30 minutes than drive. When I lived in Phoenix, I did not want to spend more than 30 seconds outside in the summer.

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fouc 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

how's the tree situation though? 110F + lots of huge trees = a lot more tolerable. trees cool shit down big time.

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httpz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a desert so trees can't survive without irrigation. Since water is scarce as well, there aren't enough trees to cover the vast low density area.

	▲	Y-bar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can always start small and over decades grow the area. After all that is how cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam became bike friendly, not just a few years, but decades of work. What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_cinnabari or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilopsis?

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6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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