Walking In a State Build By the Car

The  Manhattanization of America is coming to the streets of Ohio and the car-dependent suburbia culture.  Dublin, Ohio is a community where the ideas of New Suburbia have taken shape in the shadows of Old Suburbia.  The Atlantic covers this in What Transit Will Actually Look Like in The New Suburbia by Leigh Gallagher.  From the article:

"In Dublin, Ohio, a suburb 17 miles northwest of Columbus, the town has rezoned 1,100 acres to create the Bridge Street District, a cutting-edge plan for a dense, mixed-use urban environment, including a $14 million pedestrian bridge designed to help "create a rich and robust non-motorized environment." Local developer Crawford Hoying is developing a $300 million mixed-use project on the one side of the river, and on the other, it's developing 42 high-end condos — 24 of which are already reserved, mostly by empty-nesters living in big homes in nearby car-dependent suburbs or golf communities. "Walkability is the number one reason for every person," says principal Brent Crawford. Dublin has no access to rail transit. But the Central Ohio Transit Authority recently announced a plan to redraw its bus network to offer more high-frequency service to denser areas, including new lines to Bridge Park. Crawford says this means his residents could have access to everything they need without a car."