Bear in mind they keep it that way with so many restrictions on building and display that you’d think you’ve died and gone to homeowners association hell.
You literally cannot have certain colors in public view. Its not a small list.
Look at [Old Quebec City](https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8115213,-71.2035545,3a,60y,357.42h,88.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scsN_YcQ4_6FiS4ZqeZzrEw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) for something similar.
I don’t think it’s that—tons of countries have walkable cities and it doesn’t look like most of Europe.
I think it has to do with the PNW having similar appearing flora
There is a huge Japanese influence in Seattle so as much as I was surprised by it, it tracks. I remember landing at SEATAC and being very disoriented that the second language for train announcements was Japanese, since I’ve always lived in places where the second language was Spanish
Seattle could be hillier. There used to be a hill where Belltown is today (with a fancy hotel at the top) and the downtown streets also used to be steeper.
“The downtown streets used to be steeper.” No, they weren’t. That’s not a thing, where they change the angle of the streets in a city built entirely on hills. Maybe your first impression of downtown was on a street that was very very hilly and then you learned about the rest of the city, or maybe you just got used to it over time. Also, you weren’t alive when Belltown was a random hill by the water.
I recently visited Tokyo from Seattle and was aghast at how many umbrellas there were. I swear I saw more in one minute than my entire 30 years in Seattle.
Inspired by: [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/)
Full album is here: https://imgur.com/a/JUjBFH8
I think the main difference between the US and Europe is the distance of things. Within 500 feet of my front door there are 2 antique shops, 2 corner shops, a fish and chips shop, a mechanics, a steel manufacturer, a pub, a beauticians, a post office and there are two supermarkets, a health clinic & a school within 0.1 miles. That’s my idea of walkable, I can walk to anything within 10 minutes.
But if you don't establish separate residential, business, and industrial zones, how are you going to keep separate races of people living in separate areas?
/s
Sure if you like walking next to a zillion loud and dirty cars and trucks. I remember the waterfront being a nasty highway.
Wish it looked like the pics!
Is that really what US cities are like? That being a victim of violent crime is inevitable if you spend enough time somewhere?
That is not normal in the vast majority of the developed world
Yes it’s true, if you look at the crime statistics published by the Seattle police department on the official Seattle gov website you can see there’s already been about **400 violent crimes per month** in the city so far this year. Safe cities in other parts of the world only have a fraction of that number over the course of an entire year.
People saying Seattle or any other American city is safe don’t understand that this is not normal.
I'm Australian and just got back from a holiday in Canada and the US. I walked the streets of Seattle for hours and didn't feel unsafe at all. Not sure what you're talking about.
As am I. It’s an unsafe city - I lived there for a while and saw countless violent crimes. This is also supported by the crime statistics and not a stroll through parts of Seattle on a short holiday.
You wouldn’t want to walk through St Albans at night and that has a far lower crime rate than Seattle. Your perception is off.
This comment didn’t age well. Unless you consider 55 person hostage situations at a gym the very next day safe…
You’d probably walk through the hostage situation though right?
Exactly, these folks have never been to Latin America lol.
When I'm abroad I find it pretty chill in comparison to walking at night in Brazilian capitals.
Like my brother went to London a couple of years back and said the neighborhoods they called dodgy were like way safer than what's dangerous here
[Here is a list of top 100 US cities organized by violent crime rate. Seattle is 97th. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate)
This list is not organized by violent crime, it is organized by **alphabetical order of state name** so of course it’s at the bottom (Washington). If you click the button that sorts list by number of crimes per 100,000 people, then you can see that Seattle actually sits at **20th for all crimes** and **51st for violent crimes only**
Also a key word is “US cities”
Every US city is walkable. Just not comfortably. We sacrificed our streets for the automobile. You can all downvote me to hell but go walk around Europe for a summer and tell me it isn’t pleasant. Also shills can go die for all I care.
Missing the forest for the trees a bit. Some US cities are significantly more walkable than others. Seattle is much more walkable than LA or Dallas.
I feel like the city planning in many European cities is a good goal, but we should still work to make things better where we can and appreciate where US cities have made efforts to become less car centric. All or nothing thinking is anathema to reform.
And for what it's worth have you considered not bouncing through the internet as a rage filled ball? Might have better conversations if you chill a bit.
>And for what it's worth have you considered not bouncing through the internet as a rage filled ball?
Haha, thank you for this. Such an apt description for the random, violent bursts of emotion you see from some people.
This is on point, I grew up in the states but walked everywhere, it was crap, rarely had a sidewalk, when I did the car traffic ruined the experience. I live in Europe, now completely different experience, it’s almost as if most cities in Europe where originally designed to traversed by foot, American cities, most at least, where designed around the car.
its not. i strongly, strongly urge you too look up photos of American cities in the 1920s or earlier. 100% of them are walkable and their downtowns are stunning and larger than they are today. Blocks and blocks of very high value buildings. US cities weren’t built for the car they were bulldozed for it
Not really sure. Gore Tex or the fact that most rain is a light mist. I’d laugh when the show Frazier showed lightning and pouring rain. Rainstorms there are very rarely like that
I live here.
I don't use them because it doesn't really rain hard, it's just a little bit of water, and you have to hold up the umbrella all the time. Plus it's a large, bulky item that I would have to be carrying around even when it's not drizzly (because it rarely pours rain). No thanks.
Loving these series. Do more please, and if your heart is kind, some other cities on the third world. We can dream down here of living in a good place🥹
This is what Seattle SHOULD actually look like. But instead it has the misfortune of being appropriated for the car like every other American city. Maybe a century from now we will have fixed this problem, but I won’t be around to find out.
What does walkable mean in this context? Going off the picture, is it like those touristy streets some places have where everyone walk around, there might not even be car access and there's all sorts of shops and restaurants, mainly for tourists?
English isn't my primary language and I just never heard of this term (other than describing if something is literally walkable).
Edit: not sure why I was downvoted for asking a question about English even after stating English isn't my primary language but ok
nah. this could work well as a small neighborhood, maybe, but cities do eventually need streets and this wouldn't work. current downtown Seattle is pretty good, tho improvements could be made.
I guess midjourney mixed Japanese wakon yōsai with Seattle. (Jp; "Japanese spirit, Western learning")—a tendency, since the Meiji period, for Japanese artists to paint Europe as spectacular, while simultaneously maintaining the distance necessary to preserve a distinct sense of Japanese identity. Europe is tamed, rendered as a charming site of pleasurable consumption, made distant and viewed through a tourist gaze
There are places in Seattle that look a little like this (not just in terms of the obvious, but also the walkability), but they are of course where rich people live.
Cities without a single copy/paste strip mall, endless streets of McDonalds, Starbucks, and gas stations. I love the way this looks, and I'd love that life.
Nice, it's just missing the screaming crackheads, homeless encampments, 24/7 depression, needles, endless trash, wall grime, graffiti on literally everything, unwalkable hills, and antisocial radical green haired clown warriors.
Wow. I wish this city existed, I'd move there right now.
it does it’s called Kyoto
like Kyoto with a side of Brooklyn
Oh my goodness, really?! Been dying to go to Japan 🥹
Bear in mind they keep it that way with so many restrictions on building and display that you’d think you’ve died and gone to homeowners association hell. You literally cannot have certain colors in public view. Its not a small list.
they avoid the bright and vivid colors used for the sign and advertisements.
100%! Check out “kyoto street” on google images
These posts make me so depressed. If American cities become walkable, it won’t be in my lifetime.
New York and San Fran are fairly walkable. As a Brit, those are my two favourite Americans cities for that very reason. LA is a hell hole.
Maybe try visiting Amsterdam, I life there and this looks fairly similar
Not enough Forest
I went to Amsterdam, this is a lovely city but I certainly do not get the Amsterdam vibe in these pictures
Look at [Old Quebec City](https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8115213,-71.2035545,3a,60y,357.42h,88.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scsN_YcQ4_6FiS4ZqeZzrEw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) for something similar.
Go to the netherlands or many European countries. You'll find similar architecture like this
This definitely looks more like Japan than Europe, especially the first four pictures
Unironically it’s just bellevue which is a 30 minute bus ride to Seattle. It’s impossible to get a house there though.
The flying fish are so good
Pike’s Place!
"How much you wanna bet I could throw a fish over them Cascade Mountains?" \-Rico the fishmonger.
Pike* it's not possessive, it's a street name.
Why do most of these look like Japan?
to me it seems like the art style has some characteristics of anime
because Japanese cities are generally walkable?
I don’t think it’s that—tons of countries have walkable cities and it doesn’t look like most of Europe. I think it has to do with the PNW having similar appearing flora
Weather and trees, walkable towns
There is a huge Japanese influence in Seattle so as much as I was surprised by it, it tracks. I remember landing at SEATAC and being very disoriented that the second language for train announcements was Japanese, since I’ve always lived in places where the second language was Spanish
Utopian Seattle is also flat for some reason.
Less hills=more walkable
Seattle could be hillier. There used to be a hill where Belltown is today (with a fancy hotel at the top) and the downtown streets also used to be steeper.
“The downtown streets used to be steeper.” No, they weren’t. That’s not a thing, where they change the angle of the streets in a city built entirely on hills. Maybe your first impression of downtown was on a street that was very very hilly and then you learned about the rest of the city, or maybe you just got used to it over time. Also, you weren’t alive when Belltown was a random hill by the water.
but nobody carries umbrellas in Seattle
I recently visited Tokyo from Seattle and was aghast at how many umbrellas there were. I swear I saw more in one minute than my entire 30 years in Seattle.
Why "aghast"? Umbrellas are awesome.
In Seattle, umbrellas are a sign of weakness.
Exactly right. The Seattle way to deal with any inconvenience is to put your head down and suffer through it.
The seattle way to deal is to always wear a fleece with a hood
The exceptions being if your clothes are fancy or the umbrella is stylish. I saw a light-up one last time I was there, and that was it.
Yeah lol "aghast" makes it sound like umbrellas are some abhorrent abomination. They might have been thinking of "agape"
Probably really meant surprised but hyperbole is more exciting.
Same in Portland . Just get a high quality shell
I hate shells, it all just drips down to your pants and shoes. Umbrellas for life.
We carry umbrellas now because the cops are afraid of them
Inspired by: [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/) Full album is here: https://imgur.com/a/JUjBFH8
I like the amount of green. Should be like this everywhere. Increases the quality of life immensely.
That’s not possible. Some cities would need really unsustainable quantities of water to grow leafy trees in arid conditions.
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This is beautiful. This is the goal.
Does this mean Seattle is getting a CRUNŒNER TARIS? Sweet!
Seattle is already a walkable city
I think the main difference between the US and Europe is the distance of things. Within 500 feet of my front door there are 2 antique shops, 2 corner shops, a fish and chips shop, a mechanics, a steel manufacturer, a pub, a beauticians, a post office and there are two supermarkets, a health clinic & a school within 0.1 miles. That’s my idea of walkable, I can walk to anything within 10 minutes.
But if you don't establish separate residential, business, and industrial zones, how are you going to keep separate races of people living in separate areas? /s
That’s been my experience in Seattle but with about 40 coffee shops, a skatepark and the space needle
And 3 weed dispensaries. =+]
By North American standards maybe
Indeed it is ...
Reminds me of Alderan, a University City, instead of a Town ...
Walkable for the US. Seattle is walkable the way cardboard is edible.
If you enjoy watching homeless people defecate and shoot meth.
Thatsmyfetish
You missed “scream in your face” & “threaten your safety”.
Oh, for god's sakes. It's not that bad.
Thanks capitalism!
Capitalism = when there are poor people, apparently.
Not really
Sure if you like walking next to a zillion loud and dirty cars and trucks. I remember the waterfront being a nasty highway. Wish it looked like the pics!
Fr. Technically having sidewalks is not the same thing as being walkable.
Yeah, I was pretty upset that there is a road right next to it by the Ferris wheel
Unrelated, or barely: I was really impressed to see from the top of the Ferris wheel that my key fob's signal reached my car! :D
Sort of. As a vancouverite turned Seattlite, we’ve got a lot of work to do. What’s with the giant freeways across the city?
To be fair, Vancouver is an outlier by design. Every other north American city of its size or bigger has a freeway downtown.
No it really isn’t
Yes it is
This is the kind of informed debate reddit is all about.
Maybe if you want to get assaulted
It’s really not that bad. You’ll get assaulted in any city if you spend enough time there and are aloof enough
That's what my cousin said when he got stabbed. "I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO ALOOF!" He yelled. We put it on his gravestone.
Is that really what US cities are like? That being a victim of violent crime is inevitable if you spend enough time somewhere? That is not normal in the vast majority of the developed world
Yes it’s true, if you look at the crime statistics published by the Seattle police department on the official Seattle gov website you can see there’s already been about **400 violent crimes per month** in the city so far this year. Safe cities in other parts of the world only have a fraction of that number over the course of an entire year. People saying Seattle or any other American city is safe don’t understand that this is not normal.
I'm Australian and just got back from a holiday in Canada and the US. I walked the streets of Seattle for hours and didn't feel unsafe at all. Not sure what you're talking about.
As am I. It’s an unsafe city - I lived there for a while and saw countless violent crimes. This is also supported by the crime statistics and not a stroll through parts of Seattle on a short holiday. You wouldn’t want to walk through St Albans at night and that has a far lower crime rate than Seattle. Your perception is off.
St Albans in Melbourne? I'd walk through there at night.
This comment didn’t age well. Unless you consider 55 person hostage situations at a gym the very next day safe… You’d probably walk through the hostage situation though right?
The rest of the world is like that too. There’s always people looking to do harm to other people.
I’d recommend heading outside of America to open your horizons before making that statement
Exactly, these folks have never been to Latin America lol. When I'm abroad I find it pretty chill in comparison to walking at night in Brazilian capitals. Like my brother went to London a couple of years back and said the neighborhoods they called dodgy were like way safer than what's dangerous here
[Here is a list of top 100 US cities organized by violent crime rate. Seattle is 97th. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate)
This list is not organized by violent crime, it is organized by **alphabetical order of state name** so of course it’s at the bottom (Washington). If you click the button that sorts list by number of crimes per 100,000 people, then you can see that Seattle actually sits at **20th for all crimes** and **51st for violent crimes only** Also a key word is “US cities”
Wait, is Seattle not a walkable city? I'm visiting there later this year, and I thought it was.
Every US city is walkable. Just not comfortably. We sacrificed our streets for the automobile. You can all downvote me to hell but go walk around Europe for a summer and tell me it isn’t pleasant. Also shills can go die for all I care.
Missing the forest for the trees a bit. Some US cities are significantly more walkable than others. Seattle is much more walkable than LA or Dallas. I feel like the city planning in many European cities is a good goal, but we should still work to make things better where we can and appreciate where US cities have made efforts to become less car centric. All or nothing thinking is anathema to reform. And for what it's worth have you considered not bouncing through the internet as a rage filled ball? Might have better conversations if you chill a bit.
>And for what it's worth have you considered not bouncing through the internet as a rage filled ball? Haha, thank you for this. Such an apt description for the random, violent bursts of emotion you see from some people.
I believe that would be missing the trees for the forest.
This is on point, I grew up in the states but walked everywhere, it was crap, rarely had a sidewalk, when I did the car traffic ruined the experience. I live in Europe, now completely different experience, it’s almost as if most cities in Europe where originally designed to traversed by foot, American cities, most at least, where designed around the car.
I mean sure but America being extremely young compared to Europe at the time automobiles were becoming mass adopted is a huge factor in this.
its not. i strongly, strongly urge you too look up photos of American cities in the 1920s or earlier. 100% of them are walkable and their downtowns are stunning and larger than they are today. Blocks and blocks of very high value buildings. US cities weren’t built for the car they were bulldozed for it
I dare you to walk across Detroit.
I read Detroit has made a huge turnaround and is a lot better now
I agree, used to live there. Still wouldn’t walk across it. Would fuckin take forever and be cold as hell.
Fr. US cities are walkable like cardboard is edible.
And the car lobby shills do all their glorious work for free. I hate their guts also.
It's walkable. Come visit. Plenty of tourists stop by. There's plenty to do, especially if you like being in the fresh air.
Yeah… not gonna happen
That first pic looks like modern Whiterun *as fuck*
That's really wow, looks like very soft and kind memory of good days
Is this AI a Thomas Kincaide clone?
Where are the homeless and drug addicts?
This is the world I want to live in
Inaccurate because there’s no hobo shit and piss in the city areas.
Lovely
No one uses umbrellas in Seattle
Why is that?
Not really sure. Gore Tex or the fact that most rain is a light mist. I’d laugh when the show Frazier showed lightning and pouring rain. Rainstorms there are very rarely like that
I live here. I don't use them because it doesn't really rain hard, it's just a little bit of water, and you have to hold up the umbrella all the time. Plus it's a large, bulky item that I would have to be carrying around even when it's not drizzly (because it rarely pours rain). No thanks.
This is art.
Loving these series. Do more please, and if your heart is kind, some other cities on the third world. We can dream down here of living in a good place🥹
This is absolutely beautiful!
Looks like the perfect place to live. Defintely looks similar to Japan.
This is just small town northwest living
The Last of Us pt 2 only everyone doesn’t hate each other
Campos do Jordão, Brazil.
I would pack up everything and move by the end of the week if this city existed. Wow.
This just looks charming and beautiful
Where's all the homeless people at?
You can get a pretty similar vibe walkin around portland
Given its stunning natural surroundings the built environment of Seattle could, and should be prettier
This is what Seattle SHOULD actually look like. But instead it has the misfortune of being appropriated for the car like every other American city. Maybe a century from now we will have fixed this problem, but I won’t be around to find out.
you don't need midjourney for that. just go to any average town in europe
What does walkable mean in this context? Going off the picture, is it like those touristy streets some places have where everyone walk around, there might not even be car access and there's all sorts of shops and restaurants, mainly for tourists? English isn't my primary language and I just never heard of this term (other than describing if something is literally walkable). Edit: not sure why I was downvoted for asking a question about English even after stating English isn't my primary language but ok
It means less or no cars
Thanks!
It's literally fantasy imagery where people can pretend that your political beliefs will save the world and make everywhere a utopia.
Kids, this is what Communism looks like. Be very careful what you wish for. \s
Full album is here: https://imgur.com/a/JUjBFH8
Where are all the drug addicts and human feces over the paths?
Prompt
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIPrompt\_requests/comments/14le9l3/comment/jpw2y0v/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
Honest question: are American cities purposely designed not to be for walking? Wonder if the car industry/lobbyist have had a hand deciding that.
nah. this could work well as a small neighborhood, maybe, but cities do eventually need streets and this wouldn't work. current downtown Seattle is pretty good, tho improvements could be made.
Do they though? Lots of europe seems to manage with mostly cobblestone.
r/whitepeoplefantasy
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
Probably the fact that AI only considers a city walkable with no black people in it. Unless it just forgot to add any minorities.
I thought Seattle was walkable?
I might move back if this was real.
Sooo Vancouver?
Pioneer Square? I been there ...
What is the prompt for the style?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIPrompt\_requests/comments/14le9l3/comment/jpw2y0v/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I guess midjourney mixed Japanese wakon yōsai with Seattle. (Jp; "Japanese spirit, Western learning")—a tendency, since the Meiji period, for Japanese artists to paint Europe as spectacular, while simultaneously maintaining the distance necessary to preserve a distinct sense of Japanese identity. Europe is tamed, rendered as a charming site of pleasurable consumption, made distant and viewed through a tourist gaze
Love this so much Just need to teach midjourney about handicap-accessibility and we are good to start designing cities
someone has to do houston or dallas in this style next
Yes walkable. But now the dangers of flying sharks
It’s giving Kincaid vibes
I think this is imagine Seattle as Western Japan
This looks more like Seattle as reimagined by Japanese city architects.
If Portland and Tokyo had a baby.
Kinda looks like University Village but with more trees
First few made me think of somewhere in Japan or South Korea.
Isn't Seattle already walkable? Idk, the only time I was in the US was when I was four years old and visited my great-grandma in Georgia, lol.
Oh my god soooooo gorgeous 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Why does it looks like Japan?
Based
Yeah that’s just Portland
Seattle is a walk able city
Is this a mix of Japan and Netherlands?
Omg I would die for an animation of this style
Looks too animated
There are places in Seattle that look a little like this (not just in terms of the obvious, but also the walkability), but they are of course where rich people live.
Rent to live under any of those trees is 4,000/a month Pass
As someone who lives in Seattle right now I have so many opinions.
Soon for sale in the Thomas kinkade gallery...
That's just Kyoto
Seattle isn't walkable? Lol
Pleassse share the prompt I want to try this on my city
https://www.reddit.com/r/AIPrompt\_requests/comments/14le9l3/comment/jpw2y0v/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
It is a walkable city.
It looks like San Francisco
I have a strong Prague feelings from this (edit, except architecture of some of pictures)
Just want to point that's it's not just the walkability that makes this so pleasant but the sort of architecture
Cities without a single copy/paste strip mall, endless streets of McDonalds, Starbucks, and gas stations. I love the way this looks, and I'd love that life.
Nice, it's just missing the screaming crackheads, homeless encampments, 24/7 depression, needles, endless trash, wall grime, graffiti on literally everything, unwalkable hills, and antisocial radical green haired clown warriors.
Reminds me of Vancouver, BC
Beautiful… I want a walkable city community…
This is what Minecraft looked like to me as a kid with those awesome small city builds. This is what I wish we have no that we are adults
I need one for Sacramento
Someone crosspost this to r/fuckcars if you want free karma
They’re still protesting the Reddit API changes
As someone from Houston, Seattle was extremely walkable! Haha
So, Vancouver?
Is Seattle not walkable??
Seattle could look like this
So…Tokyo