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The problem is cars. Older cities were designed too, they were just designed for people instead of cars. A lot of what looks like spontaneous generation was just designed so well you can't see the design.
The problem is cars. Older cities were designed too, they were just designed for people instead of cars. A lot of what looks like spontaneous generation was just designed so well you can't see the design.
I think we wasted all our capital on freeways and cloverleafs
The problem is cars. Older cities were designed too, they were just designed for people instead of cars. A lot of what looks like spontaneous generation was just designed so well you can't see the design.
Your reply reminded me of a lecture from an ocw course I'm watching on and off. He covers a bit about infrastructure design and policy choices in that lecture. I thought it was really interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpcbBk5ckas
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The government and especially municipal bodies are staffed by people from the community. If you want the government to change, there is a way to do so: generate more interest in what it does, how it functions. Get more people involved/interested, including yourself :) .
This is merely a restatement of the ideal of government, and doesn't address the fundamental complaint of the GP. Government isn't incompetent because it's made up of incompetent individuals -- it's incompetent because it's been deeply captured by special interest groups, including, but not limited to, public sector unions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice (TL;DR: When studying government from an economics…
How exactly do you "deeply capture" government? I had the impression that these "Special Interest" groups can press their agendas precisely because they can staff government with people who are pliable to their agenda. If enough people with no "special interests" can be elected to positions of power, wouldn't that immediately remove corruption?
Note that the files are on Github and it really isn't about one person or group doing a complete design. One of the things that I have started thinking about that needs to be fleshed out more on that page is Open Source Engineering and ways to make zoning and all aspects of urban systems more component-based as well as moving beyond code/standard and form-based to common information systems platforms that will facilitate automation of planning/approval and smart/sensor network data integration.
I have been working on integrating some ideas. http://tinyvillages.org . Note that the files are on Github and it really isn't about one person or group doing a complete design. One of the things that I have started thinking about that needs to be fleshed out more on that page is Open Source Engineering and ways to make zoning and all aspects of urban systems more component-based as well as moving beyond code/standar…
I have been working on integrating some ideas. http://tinyvillages.org . Note that the files are on Github and it really isn't about one person or group doing a complete design. One of the things that I have started thinking about that needs to be fleshed out more on that page is Open Source Engineering and ways to make zoning and all aspects of urban systems more component-based as well as moving beyond code/standar…
I see that each house have their own kitchen. How do you justify that. Seems extremely wasteful.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is merely a restatement of the ideal of government, and doesn't address the fundamental complaint of the GP. Government isn't incompetent because it's made up of incompetent individuals -- it's incompetent because it's been deeply captured by special interest groups, including, but not limited to, public sector unions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice (TL;DR: When studying government from an economics…
I was not aware that this was an entire field of study! Thank you. I will need to do more reading. How exactly do you "deeply capture" government? I had the impression that these "Special Interest" groups can press their agendas precisely because they can staff government with people who are pliable to their agenda. If enough people with no "special interests" can be elected to positions of power, wouldn't that immed…
This dynamic scales up the chain. When you're buying a new IT system, do you get five clever guys down on Main Street to do it, or do you get Microsoft/IBM with all the promises of synergy in the cloud, the 15 page SLA (think of the bus count!) - and an invitation to that big "trade show" in Vegas? In practically all situations, even without corruption, the rational choice is to go with Microsoft. First, if it doesn't quite work, well, you have reams of case studies and white papers to point to, you really did do your homework, it must be us doing something wrong, let's get McKinsey to write a report. If it goes down, look at the fancy SLA. Plenty of cover that you don't have with the local guys - indeed, you'll learn just how many of your colleagues could have told you from the beginning that it would never have worked. And if it did work, all that nice money you saved disappears from your next budget to have the equivalent of Microsoft fix potholes in the next department. Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs. Again, all of this without specific incompetence or corruption, without being specifically pliable to any outside interest.