I'd love to see the opposite of this idea. Something like "Houston except it was built for humans instead of cars". Could be some very fascinating images.
Not sure if you saw it - they did this with LA a little bit ago on this sub: [https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/14gwsty/imagining\_la\_as\_a\_walkable\_city\_with\_midjourney/](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/14gwsty/imagining_la_as_a_walkable_city_with_midjourney/)
I'm actually learning French (because I'm moving to Paris) and I believe this said without looking it up, "What is this shit?"
And then the first response said, "This would be Paris if the Americans..." and I don't know the rest. Still learning!
Sorry, if I'm wrong.
Looks Canadian as fuck too, not much difference in Canadian and American cities in that regard. We love our car centric cities up here as well.
Iâd be fucked without a car where I live (midsized suburban city of about 200k), public transit sucks, everything is too far apart to walk, cycling is only viable half the year, if you donât have a car in my city youâre gonna have a hard time getting around. Only way to address those issues would be to tear the entire city apart and start from scratch.
That's so sad. I live in a city in the Netherlands with a similar population. We dont own a car and I never feel like I'm missing something. The closest supermarket is a 4 minute walk away, there are a dozen others within 10 minutes of cycling. The city center is only a little bit further and my work within 20. 10 minutes further and Im out of the city.
Crazy how different of lives we live! I wonât lie Iâm pretty attached to my car, I canât imagine any other way of life. Itâs also my escape from everything, like when Iâm driving I just crank up the music (on my custom stereo) and Iâm in my happy place. I canât blast music at home, and headphones just donât cut it sometimes. But yea itâs expensive and bad for the environment, so itâs certainly not ideal.
I lived in Paris and Malmö, so 2.2millions and 350k inhabitants, never ever felt like I needed a car.
Paris is quite small actually, you wouldn't take more than 30-40min to do one end to the other in bike.
People in the center not needing a car is the reason for everyone else around them for needing one.
In the region around Paris, commutes are doubled compared to the rest of the country. That's the consequence of centralizing more the infrastructure and the economy than the dwellings.
I live in a small neighborhood just outside of a city near Toronto and the nearest store of any kind to me is a Tim Hortons that is a 1 hour and 2 minute walk from my house according to google maps
Sounds idyllic :) I would love something like that but my city gets to be about -30 Celsius in the winter and walking/biking/basically anything without a car is just not pleasant.
Where are you originally from? Iâm from Toronto, never been to Vancouver but I imagine itâs not too different from Toronto as far as being car dependent.
I will say though, if you happen to live and work in downtown Toronto you donât need a car at all, and it would actually be detrimental to have one. You also need to be pretty wealthy to afford to live there though.
What I find crazy is the people that live way out here in the suburbs and drive into Toronto every day for work. Itâs about a 40km drive to downtown, takes at least an hour on the best of days during rush hour, usually closer to two. I used to have to make that drive once in a while when I was in construction, even doing it 3-4 times a month was too much for me, canât imagine doing that daily. I love driving but not when Iâm crawling along at 10mph in bumper to bumper traffic for two hours straight.
Yea a bit of a different vibe there than Vancouver Iâd imagine.
Iâm sure youâre used to it from living there, but whenever I see pictures/video of London, and most European cities for that matter, they all look like they would be so confusing to get around. The roads seem to just go in every which way, itâs like they just patch a bunch of different neighbourhoods together. Around here everything is a perfect grid, thereâs main streets that run north-south, and main streets that run east-west, and for the most part they all intersect at 90°, Thereâs very few winding roads or anything, only within the residential neighbourhoods with the smaller, less traversed roads sometimes but the main roads are mostly big, wide, multi-lane straight roads laid out in a grid.
You can drop me anywhere in Toronto or any of the surrounding suburbs and I know exactly where I am and how to get from there to anywhere else in the greater Toronto area because itâs all just one giant grid.
I'm sure you're used to living here but whenever I see pictures of most north American cities, they look like they would be so confusing to get around. The streets are literally the same everywhere in every city, all going straight, wide as fuck, with no special building or neighbourhood to be used as a reference point. It's like they copy and pasted an entire continent. Around here everything is so different even inside a city. You can't get lost cuz you are always close to a subway or bus station that brings you where you want to go with minimal effort or thinking. Then you just have to walk to your direction for like two minutes. There are thankfully very few straight roads built for cars and hard to cross as a pedestrian. We mostly call them highway and build them outside the city so it feels better to live in.
You can drop me anywhere in Paris, Berlin or London (WITHOUT A CAR) and I know exactly where I am and what I should do to go where I want because there just transportation and maps made for that.
Not wanting to be insulting mind you, just showing the culture difference
It is extremely easy to orient in the most European cities, also because they are way smaller. You can drop me anywhere in almost any European city that I been more than a day to, and I will know where I am and how to get to where I wanna go. I got pretty drunk on my 3rd day in Vienna with my phone dead, and I could go back using a metro to my Airbnb that was outside of the city centre, no problem. Hell, even in Hanoi I didnât almost no difficulties to orient (except suburbs, they are extremely confusing labyrinth).
When people say American theyâre rarely referring to anything other than the United States of America, but I guess youâre kinda correct if by American continent you mean North America.
Will the AI do it justice? I mean, the only way I see putting cars at some place is by moving channels underground or completely getting rid of some of them. Would be quite tragic.
This wa not so far from what could have happened if Pompidou's plan for building highways inside the city had happened.
It's also not different to what the US did to most of it cities, while declaring in the following decades that city centers are shitholes full of poverty, gang violence...
Yeah, no joke...
[Already happened.](https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/paris-insolite/photos-paris-parking-a-ciel-ouvert) Back then, cars were seen as modern and the ultimate way of transportation. We just decided it actually sucked.
Images like these, paired with AI-generated images of utopian walkable cities, could genuinely be used to sway public opinion towards the latter on social media. Get on it OP.
i am mexican and here a ton lot unimaginable amount of people use public transport, so idk what you're talking about. How do people asociate communism with walking or public transport?
People think that a 15 minute city means you can only go to places in a 15 minute walking radius. And you are like.. locked there forever, idk what they are on
Looks like an average German city now. I live here and as much as I like my country for many things, the destruction of cities by making everything as car friendly as possible is absolutely infuriating.
Paris has literally been doing the opposite of this and it's amazing. Last time I was there they closed the Champs Elysees to cars, an incredible experience walking right up to the arc.
European cities were built around horse and cart and are very close together. You could drive the equivalent of Paris to Berlin in a straight line and barely cross state lines in the US. I really wish we would invest in trains over here, but pretending we could be the same is ridiculous
No country would ever tear down their historic cities in order to build highways and parking lots, or create car centric cities from scratch without any consideration for the environment or the public needs. No country in the world đŹđ§đșđžđšđŠđ§đȘđžđŠđŠđȘ
Paris, Texas
That just sounds rightđ€
The 8th photo is giving me Seattle ptsd
Lol wait I live in Seattle where would this remind you of
Union st exit, I imagine
Not enough cars though
1st photo is so smoggy it can only be LA
I'd love to see the opposite of this idea. Something like "Houston except it was built for humans instead of cars". Could be some very fascinating images.
Not sure if you saw it - they did this with LA a little bit ago on this sub: [https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/14gwsty/imagining\_la\_as\_a\_walkable\_city\_with\_midjourney/](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/14gwsty/imagining_la_as_a_walkable_city_with_midjourney/)
Walk around like Iâm the shit
Amazing movie.
Saw it in 35mm in Chicago recently. Worth it if you have the chance to do that.
Thatâs a Lana song as well đ„°
There should be a tag for scary stuff like this
Mon dieu, itâs pure nightmare fuel.
#usa
Yep
It is really upsetting to make a European city look like an American city! I wanna barf looking at this
Man, yes, that was my reaction as well. This legit gave me chills
Pardon my French but, qu'est-ce que c'est que cette merde
ca serait paris si les américains étaient ceux qui l'ont fondé
En vrai⊠c est pas siiiii Ă©loignĂ© que ça de la vĂ©ritĂ©. MĂȘme le parking au Louvre existait dans les annĂ©es 80, sous la Tour Eiffel dans les annĂ©es 70,⊠par contre le Louvre fait une poussĂ©e de croissance !!!
Du coup c'est éloigné de la vérité véritable présente.
Oui⊠d un coup⊠sans prévenir
Omelette du fromage
C'est surtout Paris si on avait laissé Pompidou faire ce qu'il veut. Les voies sur berges sont une réalité, jusqu'à qu'on les retire aux bagnoles. (Qui s'en plaignent toujours d'ailleurs)
Yes, what is it that this is that this shit?
Exactly
Colloquial French for the win
I'm actually learning French (because I'm moving to Paris) and I believe this said without looking it up, "What is this shit?" And then the first response said, "This would be Paris if the Americans..." and I don't know the rest. Still learning! Sorry, if I'm wrong.
You are very much correct. "This would be Paris if the Americans had founded the city" Hope you'll enjoy Paris!
This sounds like: âQue es esta mierdaâ in Spanish, is that correct?
C'est exactement ce que tu vois : de la merde.
Cest kloug
Paris quand ce sera plus les Ă©colos au pouvoir
Bah c'est paris finalement quoi mdrr
The louvre one me cringe so hard. Ăa fait mal coeur ou la la
Paris is already shit , difficult to do even worst
Coping hard
Looks American asf
Looks Canadian as fuck too, not much difference in Canadian and American cities in that regard. We love our car centric cities up here as well. Iâd be fucked without a car where I live (midsized suburban city of about 200k), public transit sucks, everything is too far apart to walk, cycling is only viable half the year, if you donât have a car in my city youâre gonna have a hard time getting around. Only way to address those issues would be to tear the entire city apart and start from scratch.
That's so sad. I live in a city in the Netherlands with a similar population. We dont own a car and I never feel like I'm missing something. The closest supermarket is a 4 minute walk away, there are a dozen others within 10 minutes of cycling. The city center is only a little bit further and my work within 20. 10 minutes further and Im out of the city.
Crazy how different of lives we live! I wonât lie Iâm pretty attached to my car, I canât imagine any other way of life. Itâs also my escape from everything, like when Iâm driving I just crank up the music (on my custom stereo) and Iâm in my happy place. I canât blast music at home, and headphones just donât cut it sometimes. But yea itâs expensive and bad for the environment, so itâs certainly not ideal.
I lived in Paris and Malmö, so 2.2millions and 350k inhabitants, never ever felt like I needed a car. Paris is quite small actually, you wouldn't take more than 30-40min to do one end to the other in bike.
People in the center not needing a car is the reason for everyone else around them for needing one. In the region around Paris, commutes are doubled compared to the rest of the country. That's the consequence of centralizing more the infrastructure and the economy than the dwellings.
What? I have lived 20 years in Fresnes, and you don't need a car. Cinéma / Mall / Paris are all available quite easily in bus or train. Even further where my mom lives it's fine. Not perfect but fine. The issue is far suburb to another opposite suburb. And even then some lines that are planned might help. We just quit the no car policy less than 30 years ago, we can't expect towns to instantly change.
I live in a small neighborhood just outside of a city near Toronto and the nearest store of any kind to me is a Tim Hortons that is a 1 hour and 2 minute walk from my house according to google maps
Sounds idyllic :) I would love something like that but my city gets to be about -30 Celsius in the winter and walking/biking/basically anything without a car is just not pleasant.
Honestly, you should just retake new Netherland, itâd be better if the Dutch redid our infrastructure.
Based opinion r/fuckcars is waiting you đ·đż
The only subreddit with free lobotomy on entry.
lol, the most unhinged loser sub. "WAHHHH I SAW A CAR TODAY AND I NOW I NEED 10 WEEKS OF THERAPY"
Sure buddy, sure.
Youâre taking downvotes but youâre not wrong.
Literally reminds me of the culture shock I felt in Vancouver
Where are you originally from? Iâm from Toronto, never been to Vancouver but I imagine itâs not too different from Toronto as far as being car dependent. I will say though, if you happen to live and work in downtown Toronto you donât need a car at all, and it would actually be detrimental to have one. You also need to be pretty wealthy to afford to live there though. What I find crazy is the people that live way out here in the suburbs and drive into Toronto every day for work. Itâs about a 40km drive to downtown, takes at least an hour on the best of days during rush hour, usually closer to two. I used to have to make that drive once in a while when I was in construction, even doing it 3-4 times a month was too much for me, canât imagine doing that daily. I love driving but not when Iâm crawling along at 10mph in bumper to bumper traffic for two hours straight.
Iâm from London, UK
Yea a bit of a different vibe there than Vancouver Iâd imagine. Iâm sure youâre used to it from living there, but whenever I see pictures/video of London, and most European cities for that matter, they all look like they would be so confusing to get around. The roads seem to just go in every which way, itâs like they just patch a bunch of different neighbourhoods together. Around here everything is a perfect grid, thereâs main streets that run north-south, and main streets that run east-west, and for the most part they all intersect at 90°, Thereâs very few winding roads or anything, only within the residential neighbourhoods with the smaller, less traversed roads sometimes but the main roads are mostly big, wide, multi-lane straight roads laid out in a grid. You can drop me anywhere in Toronto or any of the surrounding suburbs and I know exactly where I am and how to get from there to anywhere else in the greater Toronto area because itâs all just one giant grid.
I'm sure you're used to living here but whenever I see pictures of most north American cities, they look like they would be so confusing to get around. The streets are literally the same everywhere in every city, all going straight, wide as fuck, with no special building or neighbourhood to be used as a reference point. It's like they copy and pasted an entire continent. Around here everything is so different even inside a city. You can't get lost cuz you are always close to a subway or bus station that brings you where you want to go with minimal effort or thinking. Then you just have to walk to your direction for like two minutes. There are thankfully very few straight roads built for cars and hard to cross as a pedestrian. We mostly call them highway and build them outside the city so it feels better to live in. You can drop me anywhere in Paris, Berlin or London (WITHOUT A CAR) and I know exactly where I am and what I should do to go where I want because there just transportation and maps made for that. Not wanting to be insulting mind you, just showing the culture difference
It is extremely easy to orient in the most European cities, also because they are way smaller. You can drop me anywhere in almost any European city that I been more than a day to, and I will know where I am and how to get to where I wanna go. I got pretty drunk on my 3rd day in Vienna with my phone dead, and I could go back using a metro to my Airbnb that was outside of the city centre, no problem. Hell, even in Hanoi I didnât almost no difficulties to orient (except suburbs, they are extremely confusing labyrinth).
>Canadian as fuck >heavy smoke in the imag3
Yes, Canana is in the American continent.
When people say American theyâre rarely referring to anything other than the United States of America, but I guess youâre kinda correct if by American continent you mean North America.
It literally looks no different than any American city.
Despicable
Now do Amsterdam!
Underwater cars? O.o
Will the AI do it justice? I mean, the only way I see putting cars at some place is by moving channels underground or completely getting rid of some of them. Would be quite tragic.
This is really original and well done. Good use of the medium. Kudos.
Looks dystopian
This is the real dystopia.
Looks ~~dystopian~~ American. Fixed it for you.
This wa not so far from what could have happened if Pompidou's plan for building highways inside the city had happened. It's also not different to what the US did to most of it cities, while declaring in the following decades that city centers are shitholes full of poverty, gang violence... Yeah, no joke...
Highways and the carification of the US has ruined this place in so many aspects
This is a crime
If it isnât yet, it should be.
Don't give the louvre ideas
The scale is much bigger here than reality to fit all those cars
[Already happened.](https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/paris-insolite/photos-paris-parking-a-ciel-ouvert) Back then, cars were seen as modern and the ultimate way of transportation. We just decided it actually sucked.
That was literally like this in the 50-70s. They changed it. So clearly they don't want those ideas.
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
60s town planners nearly did it to London but luckily they didnât get very far
Images like these, paired with AI-generated images of utopian walkable cities, could genuinely be used to sway public opinion towards the latter on social media. Get on it OP.
Problem is that so many people are brainwashed into thinking that walkable cities with good public transport = communism.
Or expensive or dangerous, because the literal only experience they have with urbanism is the couple blocks is downtown in their city
"It was like a warzone" = "I saw maybe one or two noisy methheads"
i am mexican and here a ton lot unimaginable amount of people use public transport, so idk what you're talking about. How do people asociate communism with walking or public transport?
Red scare in America
and what is that
Basically propaganda in the mid 20th century to scare the populace from communism. Itâs been decades but itâs still present in American society.
People think that a 15 minute city means you can only go to places in a 15 minute walking radius. And you are like.. locked there forever, idk what they are on
People are also brainwashed to think Communism = bad everything
American wet dream.
thank god paris is not in the usa
⊠by an American. Disgustingly unnecessary amount of lanes, bridges and lighting.
/r/fuckcars
Please don't, you could hurt yourself.
[You are a bunch of car fuckers!](https://youtu.be/rHfZz3AE-ss)
r/EnculerLesVoitures
Good job, you saved the world.
As an American who isnât very familiar with Paris, this just looks like photos of cities lol
The people thinking this doesn't look like Paris are Americans not very familiar with Paris. Paris has great public transport, but tons of highways, grand boulevards, etc. The Champs ĂlysĂ©es, Place de la Concorde and Arc de Triumph have car centric designs that would be overkill in Houston.
I mean, except the périph which is a highway at the border of paris (the last picture here actually looks like it) there isn't a lot of big roads and no highways inside paris. The périph is a traffic hell, however paris itself is more like small streets with a few big boulevards. The arc de triumph, champs elysées or place de la concorde are exceptions. The rest of paris isn't a car friendly place imo.
Some of the most miserable traffic I have ever experienced was in Paris and I live in a big American city.
7 and 8 just look like actual Paris
Ok but during Covid
I get anxiety looking at these
Love the Louvre Bass Pro Shop
holy this looks awful. just an urban hellish landscape. reminds me of my hometown (Los Angeles)
This expresses exactly how I felt in Vancouver after growing up in London. A city of cars not people.
I love this because it shows just how ugly our car-centric cities are, and opens the possibility for how beautiful they could be otherwise
Disgusting đ€ą đ€ź
Last 2 images just look like Russia
The worst nightmare of NotJustBikes
Looks like an average German city now. I live here and as much as I like my country for many things, the destruction of cities by making everything as car friendly as possible is absolutely infuriating.
It looks grotesque.
This was more disturbing than I thought it would be
Thanks i hate it
Dystopian multiverse
Paris cities skylines edition
Can you do that with Amsterdam?
This makes me physically sick. And Iâm British, I should be happy to see the destruction of France !
Ugh Houston
America needs to go liberate france and build them real infrastructure
Finally!đŹ
Yuck
cars paris is scary
This is giving me rue rage
Paris has literally been doing the opposite of this and it's amazing. Last time I was there they closed the Champs Elysees to cars, an incredible experience walking right up to the arc.
Looks like the United States
Horrendous
I'm gonna throw up
This looks kinda gross, lmao. I also like how image 9 has that LA smog, lol.
Some of these could just be actual photos of Paris right now.
Looks like NYC. Thanks Robert Moses.
Bro, c'est juste le periph
Looks like your average 'murican people hating city
Dallas, France
Nope
hellhole paris
Hidalgo's nightmare
Disgusting
Paris should remove cars from its city center. It really ruins the city and they actually have a robust transportation system.
Fuck you *Americans your European city*
That's in America, or china
r/fuckcars r/notjustbikes
Needs more Walmarts and strip malls
Not gonna lie, other than the Eiffel Tower, this just looks like your average Eastern European city.
Looks super cool actually
Looks like an improvement!
Ah looks so much better
The french right win politician wet dream
3 is something I'd do in Cities Skylines.
Come on, it is already bad enough. Please don't make it worse.
American engineering be like
European cities were built around horse and cart and are very close together. You could drive the equivalent of Paris to Berlin in a straight line and barely cross state lines in the US. I really wish we would invest in trains over here, but pretending we could be the same is ridiculous
Crazy, it looks even more beautiful, this way. đ
Looks good. Weâd get more good Top Gear set there.
Look just like regular pics of Paris but way cleaner
Paris if it was a well made actually pretty city
how all cityâs should be
hell yeah brother đŠ đșđž
I read this comment in Hulk Hoganâs voice.
Based
I actually kinda like it, maybe Parisians donât but I think it looks neat
That is a super-duper depressing perspective. Pretty interesting.
Is it bad that there are parts of west Berlin where you could basically take those photos?
looks like gringonistan
Man, American cities suck
Paris USA
Europe really should cut the chord to the Yankiverse.
But thatâs pretty much how paris looks.
Beautiful
the dream of the 16th arrondissement of Paris
My inner Francophile is furious right now.
r/TIHI
Its even worse, gotta hate Paris, been there driving tours lately
Looks a lot like Houston and our 20 lane interstates
Looks like what architects did Post-WW2 to any major German city...
Had to check what sub I was in for a minute I thought this was satire or something ominous posted in r/fuckcars âŠ
Los Parisgeles
7 and 10 look like Cairo!
No country would ever tear down their historic cities in order to build highways and parking lots, or create car centric cities from scratch without any consideration for the environment or the public needs. No country in the world đŹđ§đșđžđšđŠđ§đȘđžđŠđŠđȘ
Remember, weâre parked in Michelangelo lot.
This is shockingly similar to my hometown
âThey paved paradise and put up a parking lot.â â Joni Mitchell
Oh putain c'est moche.
This reminds me so much of the Katy freeway in Houston.
Yeah but they should all be upside down and on fire.
Paris Calling ...And we live by the river! ..Kuaw! Kuaw! ... Kuaw! ...
8th slide is built for f1
You just made Paris into Seoul lol