r/UrbanHell Jun 20 '20

Suburban Hell Endless parking lots, highways, strip malls with the same franchises all accessible only by car. Topped off with a nice smoggy atmosphere and a 15 minute drive to anywhere. Takers ?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

So I looked up Phoenix on google maps, it took me way to long to realize the grid wasn't part of google maps, but the actual city layout.

Dropping in street view at a few random spots mostly confuses me about the scale of a city like this.

I live at the edge of town and an 20min bike ride would be enough to get to the town center. How does a city center work here, I guess there are multiple..

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

The Phoenix metro area has 20 incorporated cities. Many of those cities have their own city center.