[jonpurdy]

You've just linked to a small, walkable street with slow traffic that has multiple food and shopping options mixed with medium density residential. Zooming out it looks like a quick walk to a metro station and multiple parks nearby. Not to mention how safe these areas are.

The random mishmash of houses and shops is exactly the type of place that makes walking viable negating the need for a car (and the expense and waste of space storing one).

I wish I could find neighbourhoods like those found in many Japanese and Korean cities; they're very small and hard to find even in Toronto and SF (and not really comparable anyway).

[rgmerk]

Not disagreeing with any of that but it’s still incredibly ugly.

Just a planter box or two would be a massive improvement!

[kiney]

for me it's the cables and similiar visible infrastructure. Most european cities I know have most or all of that stuff underground.