re: This "walkable cities" thing I keep hearing about...

There’s a couple areas that are sorta walkable: Downtown (including spanish and Beauregard town), mid city (particularly along government from S. Eugene to Jefferson Highway), and the areas immediately bordering LSU’s campus to the overpass area.

Most of BR is simply far too spread out to be walkable. They seem to be doing some fairly smart development to connect these different denser areas to create a walkable core in BR. The developments along Nicholson, Highland, Government, and in Downtown East all seem to be geared at increasing population density and connecting downtown to more desirable neighborhoods so it feels less isolated.

All of BR would benefit from reducing parking minimums, improving street connectivity, and restoring some semblance of a street grid to south BR, but creating a successful, safe, walkable, and denseish urban core that incompases LSU, Downtown, lakeview, the overpass area, the garden district, downtown east, and much of mid city would be a massive boon to BR.