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I'd rather they put in an indigenous meadow. Trees are awesome, but so are open green spaces that maintain themselves.
I'd rather they put in an indigenous meadow. Trees are awesome, but so are open green spaces that maintain themselves.
We look at a large section of a land and decide that we will destroy all life on it, pave over it with asphalt (so that even the rain cannot drain into the soil), all so that large vehicles can sit there unused. It really is the lowest opinion one can have on a piece of Earth.
I'd rather they put in an indigenous meadow. Trees are awesome, but so are open green spaces that maintain themselves.
What herbivores are you going to deploy to allow the meadow to maintain itself? Going to fence them in or let them run wild in town? In 99%+ of east coast US environments, grassland will become forest naturally (over time), even with the deer population as it is.
There's far more forest in New England than there was 150 years or so ago.
No P&L, no cost/reward analysis, no numbers at all. Just emotional "omg need more green". Have the author ever torn down a single parking lot? Doesn't look like that to me. Why is this article even on HN at all?
How long does it take to break even on the carbon output of asphalt demolition and haul-away vs carbon input of optimal density trees planted in the same space?
I like cars and spend a decent amount of time keeping my cars looking pristine. I personally prefer having more than enough parking rather than just enough. Most of the efforts to improve walkability makes it impossible to find parking when you are driving in and forces you to park in dense areas where you either have to pay a fortune to park or park in dense areas where your car is likely to get dinged by some jerk…
Most of the efforts to improve driveability make it impossible to walk anywhere.
Strong Towns has called a good amount of attention to the mandatory parking requirements in many cities (and shockingly, many downtowns). Thankfully, it seems a fair number of cities are removing such restrictions, but hopefully it becomes more widespread. In general I hope the US can urbanize, the older I get the more I realize it’s not really enjoyable living in this country. I don’t think I want hyper dense, but h…