CHARLOTTE — Is Charlotte the “World Capital of Sprawl,” a seemingly hopeless tangle of car-centric development? Or a growing metropolis that’s thoughtfully creating dense, vibrant urban areas?
The answer — to both — is yes, according to Ray Delahanty, a planning and transportation pundit who runs a YouTube channel called CityNerd with roughly 167,000 subscribers.
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After visiting Charlotte at the end of May as a panelist for the Strong Towns National Gathering, he gives his take on the Queen City in a 16-minute video posted to his channel.
Before embarking on a tour through neighborhoods like Optimist Park, NoDa, Plaza Midwood and South End, Delahanty paints a dismal picture of the city’s sprawl problem. But he found penty to like, too.
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