Culdesac
@culdesac
🏠 Walkable communities designed to connect neighbors, local businesses, & all that cities have to offer. 📍 Tempe, AZ // more soon
Car-dependency makes it harder to connect with neighbors and harder for small businesses to survive. Culdesac Tempe is showing how we can help our cities and businesses thrive with walkable design.
It's easier to connect in walkable places. It should be easier to build them in the U.S.
American cities like NYC and Chicago remain walkable because they were built before cars. Culdesac is proving we can bring that same walkability back to today’s car-dependent cities.
The U.S. needs a better model for new housing than 5-over-1s. Culdesac Tempe is a blueprint for truly walkable development that meets the urgent need for more housing without adding traffic or sprawling our cities even more.
5-over-1s have an authenticity problem. They often sprawl across entire blocks, fake looking materials, and use vertical material shifts to mask their scale. Our brains recognize authentic buildings instantly and that recognition can’t be faked.
Culdesac Tempe is proving that walkable neighborhoods can thrive in the US in the 2020s.
The neighborhoods Americans love the most are illegal to build in many U.S. cities, but they don't have to stay that way.
The answer for a lower cost of living is walkable neighborhoods.
Walkability is the solution for increasing shade in Phoenix and other desert cities.
Americans of every generation prefer to live in a walkable neighborhood, but we're not building enough of them.
Culdesac Tempe is proving that walkable neighborhoods can thrive in the US in the 2020s.
Phoenix is proving that car-dependent U.S. cities can become walkable
The best way to address loneliness in our cities is to build walkable neighborhoods.
