It’s an extremely tiny place with no geographic features, like mountains, whatsoever.
This isn’t surprising and it isn’t something to extrapolate to anywhere that is even minutely dissimilar.
This isn’t surprising and it isn’t something to extrapolate to anywhere that is even minutely dissimilar.
Flatness is nice (but weather is bad). However, the main thing is infrastructure and mixed zoning. When you build bike lanes, walkable streets and lots of shops, a livable city will follow, not the other way around. Build for the traffic you want rather than the traffic you have.
These stats on supermarkets will be similar in many European cities btw. Many cities in the US are also relatively flat, and you don't see the same thing generally.