Have you watched the video and has it changed your mind? I’m curious if it’s just the article only giving that shitty overview photo. I only watched the video and thought it was quite nice for high density urbanism. An alternative to suburbia modeled after classic European cities.

Besides shade, narrow streets might also reduce amount of walking distance. So if you make it bigger you end up with less functionality.

I’m sure if they replicate the concept it could look quite different in other climates.