While the biking/walkable city is a nice concept, it ignores how it is incompatible with certain lifestyles and hobbies.
Anyone into machining, high powered rocketry, or shooting or hunting.
YMMV but I doubt you could have a magazine and pass inspection from the BATFE or your state inspection for fireworks or explosives. And dense living near a gun range is impossible unless you got money to build a long range that can catch any stray rounds, when done in a rural area this is done using natural land and hills or building dirt mounds, which a walkable city would not have.
You’re saying this as an either or. Why does everyone need to live a rural area with access to a gun range? Vice versa just because we build more walkable infrastructure doesn’t mean literally everyone everywhere is suddenly walking 15 minutes to work.
Anyone into machining, high powered rocketry, or shooting or hunting.
YMMV but I doubt you could have a magazine and pass inspection from the BATFE or your state inspection for fireworks or explosives. And dense living near a gun range is impossible unless you got money to build a long range that can catch any stray rounds, when done in a rural area this is done using natural land and hills or building dirt mounds, which a walkable city would not have.