Quick question: Are these architectural monstrosities occupied

[ghettopalmetto]

They may want "walkable" but they also want to own a car [[Detroit will never be New York). They will want a garage for that car [[preferably two cars). You will then need to provide for garages since street parking in a dense neighborhood is not possible. If you build row houses, you will either need the lower floor to be fronted by a garage or there must be an alley-accessible garage on the back of the house. If you build without garages [[or a high rise without several levels of parking decks) you customer base will be very limited.

I don't understand your obsession with New York. But the rest of your post is crap.

I live in a walkable neighborhood, with many single-family homes. Many houses have garages. Still more houses have parking spots behind the residence. And yes, people do park on the street too, so I think that means it's possible.

No one is talking about building high-rises in this particular neighborhood--just decent urban houses, vis-a-vis garages with pre-fab shacks attached to the rear. Your habit of taking an idea to the most absurd extreme really prevents having any kind of constructive discussion.

But your post does aptly illustrate precisely what is wrong with this development [[and most of the United States). That is to say, design is conducted primarily for cars, and then everything else falls by the wayside. It's no surprise we're a completely miserable country if we're designing homes and neighborhoods for cars instead of people.