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Mostly urban density ideas were incompatible with green space in the decades prior. The more you want to fit people to "lower" rent, the less you can allocate for grass or trees.
During summers, old commieblocks in my neighborhood look like ships in a sea of trees. High density and lots of greenery can coexist.
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The change of landscape from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara always gives me prehistoric or jurassic vibes for some reason. Flying into LA from Europe and seeing slabs of reflecting concrete and buildings strech out for miles into the horizon from the desert really does give you the feeling that you are seeing the future of the climate apocalpyse in the present. As Gibson says, the future is already here it's just uneve…
I lived in Santa Barbara for 10 years. There's a thriving counterculture and a vibrant art and music community. The richie riches have their Montecito/Hope Ranch/etc supermansions, but the spirit of the place is bohemian. As for transit, I can tell you from personal experience that it's a biking city. Busses have front and back bike racks and since the whole city is on a slope you can coast from uptown to downtown ea…
Also, compared to Europe the ocean is objectively garbage for swimming (no shade for the surfing or what not). But there is little alternative in the entire US I guess so there's that.
(not the one that downvoted you by the way)
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>From NotJustBikes channel, trees and bushes can be used to obscure road visibility, which naturally forces drivers to slow down at a curve, which makes streets safer for pedestrians This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer. Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda that make everyones lives worse because people don't understand ge…
American suburban streets are built like literal highways and then people are surprised people don't respect the speed limit. It's not dumb, the easier to drive fast, the more people will do.
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>From NotJustBikes channel, trees and bushes can be used to obscure road visibility, which naturally forces drivers to slow down at a curve, which makes streets safer for pedestrians This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer. Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda that make everyones lives worse because people don't understand ge…
What do you propose for reducing car fatalities and accidents?
The photo in the article looks amazing! You basically don't see a city, you see a vast woodland! An occasional rooftop peeking through here and there are the only signs of civilization. I'd love to live in a place like that. London is a very green city by many standards, but it is nowhere close to appearing like the unbroken forest in the article. In fact, the thing I miss the most after having moved to the UK are th…
Huh? I've read multiple times that in the UK, private land can't be "fenced off" and the general public has the right to roam on it, as long as they aren't causing a nuisance or getting too close to peoples' homes. Is that only for pastures or something?
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I think you misunderstand the commie block. The entire greenspace is part of the property as well. See peter cooper village in nyc.
Things like Cooper village seems to be the exception where I live.
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During summers, old commieblocks in my neighborhood look like ships in a sea of trees. High density and lots of greenery can coexist.
Would you mind sharing your location (even vaguely) ? or maybe another place with similar architecture if you prefer.
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"You cannot see the wood for trees" I'd argue there is so much good that the tradeoff of trees killing a few humans is worth it. The biological diversity that returns - birds, carbon soil. The air quality. Less chance that the heat will kill our senior citizens. Trees prevent floods. From NotJustBikes channel, trees and bushes can be used to obscure road visibility, which naturally forces drivers to slow down at a cu…
>From NotJustBikes channel, trees and bushes can be used to obscure road visibility, which naturally forces drivers to slow down at a curve, which makes streets safer for pedestrians This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer. Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda that make everyones lives worse because people don't understand ge…
I doubt that would work, but if it did, why exactly would it be "dumb"?
> Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda
Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies.
This video [1] from another channel describes how Dutch legal reforms in the early 90's enabled this evidence-based planning by correcting incentives and dramatically simplifying the regulatory framework.
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>From NotJustBikes channel, trees and bushes can be used to obscure road visibility, which naturally forces drivers to slow down at a curve, which makes streets safer for pedestrians This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer. Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda that make everyones lives worse because people don't understand ge…
> This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer. I doubt that would work, but if it did, why exactly would it be "dumb"? > Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies. This video [1] from another channel d…
You don't see why bubble wrapping cars would be dumb? Lol.
>Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies.
Yes, and the channel targets the US... not the Netherlands. They're not even remotely similar. Emotional propaganda is all it is.
I don't really care about what the Dutch are doing when discussing the US.