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Can they be replaced by Star Trek like doors that go.. TSHHHHHH... ? A friend is asking.
Be careful what you wish for cause you’ll accidentally get doors with one of those ghastly Genuine People Personalities.
Philip K Dick, Ubik
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Certain things lend themselves well to master-planning. TCP/IP, or where transit lines are run before the city builds up around them . But only things that really need to be master-planned do better when planned that way; much of the best "large things" seem to work out better when many of the aspects are organic and human-scale.
> where transit lines are run before the city builds up around them. I'm not sure even this is true. The city may not build up in the way the planners anticipated. Even if it does, it will change over time.
It might not, but planners have a lot of forcing functions.
For example, if they build a transformational backbone, and nobody uses some part of it, they can fix it, by say, moving major government offices to that area. Residents, other businesses, services will follow suit.
What doesn't work is half-assed planning, where you have a grand, but myopic vision, implement it, and never adjust after-the-fact.
This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs. over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
Certain things lend themselves well to master-planning. TCP/IP, or where transit lines are run before the city builds up around them . But only things that really need to be master-planned do better when planned that way; much of the best "large things" seem to work out better when many of the aspects are organic and human-scale.
This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs. over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
the problem happens when somebody decides a design that was arrived upon by spontaneous growth is perfect as-is, and when needs change instead of just fixing it, you need a 6-month study and a planning commission to make a change to existing infrastructure that only had five minutes of thought put into the original design.
I guess there are no nightclubs at McMurdo. Because, fire code@!
This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs. over time i have become more and more convinced that this state of affairs is _better_.
Don’t live there anymore but it’s basically why I actually liked no zoning in Houston
If you lack that financial security, you may be stuck next to all sorts of undesirable properties, like a busy 24-hour shopping center. I saw that sort of thing frequently in Texas.
Of course, poor people get less desirable properties even in cities with zoning. But zoning does discourage some of the more haphazard "jigsaw puzzle" construction where residential buildings frequently abut busy non-residential parcels.
I couldn't help continuing with "McMurdo's Automated Teller Machines" https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-automated-teller-machines This is fun and fascinating. I wonder how much critical minutiae from our daily life goes undocumented. for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/45rpmada...
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Of course, I wanted to know what "FSTP Snow School" was, but garbage blogspam gives first-search-results like this: https://mapcarta.com/N8759058406
I can help! I went through it 7 times. FSTP, prounounced "F-stop" like the camera setting, was the "field safety training program" and basically it refers to the group of mountaineers that the US Antarctic Program's contractor hires to live in Antarctica and help out with fieldwork. It also refers to the classes that they teach in McMurdo. Basic FSTP "snow school" used to be required for everyone at McMurdo, and for…