This is really important.

The main thing that makes it hard to achieve nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed density of people and buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

@BrentToderian In our town its underground infrastructure.
@BrentToderian It boggles my mind that Vancouver hasn't attempted to replicate the West End. I guess you could count Yaletown, but the West End is a thousand times greener.
@BrentToderian I ride my bike down that exact block on the regular, and I have to say that Vancouver's bike infrastructure is awesome! *and* getting better fast. Sure, the Netherlands does bikes better, but they've been doing it longer.