400km of bike trails is an insane amount for a small town, assuming they aren’t counting bike lanes. I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that in bike or MUTs.
Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
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Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fear has a way of disarming logic.
I don't think it's unreasonable to fear nuclear accidents, as history has shown us.
It is unreasonable. We over weigh the risk based on the exposure an accident gets, not the death toll . History shows the highest kwh per human life of any energy source.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#13Lived there for about a year, reasonably close to the center; but moved to a smaller country side village once our son was born. It was very nice to have the Black Forest right around the corner but the city had an icky hipster vibe from my experience.
Consider Baden then, my backyard was facing the Black Forrest, I could see what appeared to be a skiing slope lift and on clear day you could see castle from my room and when I was working outdoors. It's my favorite part of Baden-Wuttenberg and of all Germany really. But, as someone above mentioned its rather expensive, not Switzerland expensive, but still pretty expensive.
The recent Netflix series Biohackers [1] was essentially just one big promo for Freiburg, perhaps trying to compete with Berlin in 'coolness' factor for Gen Z?
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#14Freiburg is a super nice place as long as you've got disposable income to spend to live in one of the preferred quarters, like Wiehre, Herdern, etc. If you don't, then like in many south-German cities (located in mountain valleys where space is scarce), you're living in a place without any green in sight (ok Freiburg's Stühlinger is quite green, and still affordable, though I'm guessing it's been getting more expensi…
It was a lot of fun (and quite a special experience) visiting the city. Don't have to live there.
It was wonderful to visit, but I am still a little salty about the Schlossberg. It has an incline elevator, not a funicular! And the Schlossberg tower was closed to the public. And, of course, my daughter stepped in the Bächle repeatedly. They were like a magnet for her.
I'm joking about being salty. Well, mostly. I want to go back and do more hiking. Hopefully, the tower will be open to the public, next time.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it's unreasonable to fear nuclear accidents, as history has shown us.
It is unreasonable. We over weigh the risk based on the exposure an accident gets, not the death toll . History shows the highest kwh per human life of any energy source.
But there's more to it than the death toll. If something goes bad this would turn a large area into a wasteland, that will be uninhabitable for thousands of years. And how would you prevent future civilizations from opening nuclear waste deposits that should not be opened? I think it's just too complex and we should look for simpler alternives.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#16For some reason hyper minimalism comes to mind :) http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2zifz2/upright-citizens-brigad...
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#17I lost interest in the city as soon as the article pointed out that the city's "environmentalism" was rooted in opposition to a nuclear power plant. This kind of thinking is backwards and self-destructive.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#18I spent 2 weeks in another Freiburg, in Switzerland. German cities look to me to be too sleepy, and boring. Can't think of that being considered futuristic.
They are still building buildings out of wood, and plaster...
Preference for stone paving over asphalt feel anachronistic.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#19I lost interest in the city as soon as the article pointed out that the city's "environmentalism" was rooted in opposition to a nuclear power plant. This kind of thinking is backwards and self-destructive.
Not just the city, Germany made the decision to shut down ALL of the nuclear power plants when Fukushima happened.
Now they found they're dependent on Russian gas.
Re: Freiburg: Germany's futuristic city set in a forest
#20I found it interesting that an article on a city is chock full of photos but only one has an easily discernible person, and they are a bike rider in the distance with their face blurred. In the photography architecture is preeminent over people.