Talk:Walking city

Low quality

I don't know how to mark an article as low quality but even the sentences are a mess grammatically. This needs a clean up badly 2405:6E00:2629:1F08:C94E:2193:D6F8:FA03 (talk) 11:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

There's a list of maintenance templates at Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup that can be dropped into the article. {{copyedit}} seems like an appropriate one, so I'll add that. If you think any others apply, even just to particular sections, you're welcome to add more. Belbury (talk) 12:01, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

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Planning of medieval cities

Does anyone have [access to] Schaeffer, K. H. (1980). Access for All: Transportation and Urban Growth. Sclar, Elliott (Columbia University Press Morningside ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 8–9, 14. ISBN 0-231-05164-6. OCLC 6707513. ? Because I find it difficult to believe that anyone could find evidence that medieval cities were designed to a grand plan for cross-city travel. Most just grew organically from very local desire lines, contours, getting around buildings that expanded. Linear Roman cities like Pompeii (but not Rome itself) are very much the exception. So the current text if the history section needs to be checked against that source. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

To add some weight to my challenge, I invite fellow editors to read Robert Hooke#Architecture, which describes 1666 [late medieval, early modern] proposals to take the opportunity presented by the extensive clearance caused by the Great Fire of London to "straighten out" the City of London (within the walls). The plan was rejected and instead all the higgles and piggles were carefully reinstated. (Compare the Grands Boulevards that erased the Paris of the middle ages.) I see no evidence of medieval city planning as the current text claims, so I will mark it as {{dubious}}. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk)