The next great urban reset
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The next great urban reset
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#2For anyone else who's having trouble reaching the server: http://web.archive.org/web/20180304061602/https://www.cnu.or...
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#3For anyone else who's having trouble reaching the server: http://web.archive.org/web/20180304061602/https://www.cnu.or...
Thanks.
Also, for those like me who didn't know what CNU was, it's the Congress for the New Urbanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism#Organizations
Re: The next great urban reset
#4I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning. It feels too vague.
Are they proposing the two most likely scenarios are 1. Everyone going back to running their own farms and 2. Continued urban sprawl?
What is the reason for this reset? Millennials priced out of the housing market?
I'd be very grateful to hear some clarification about this this piece from someone a lot more knowledgeable than I in urban design.
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#5I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning. It feels too vague. Are they proposing the two most likely scenarios are 1. Everyone going back to running their own farms and 2. Continued urban sprawl? What is the reason for this reset? Millennials priced out of the housing market? I'd be very grateful to hear some clarification about this this piece from someone a lot…
I am actually skeptical of any plan that calls for us to smash more people closer together. A development near my home wanted to smash 5 houses into the same location where 1 was before. With only 12 feet between, (6 feet of yard space for each house) chop down huge trees, etc... I won a small victory at city hall, got a bunch of people to show up, even measured the land and found their plans were 15 feet short! (greedy liars, it was unreal)
I found out that this developer had a history of paving over wetlands and doing whatever they wanted. (they were in lawsuits with the state over this)
And the kicker? He was a part of an initiative called "open spaces". The idea behind "open spaces" was to save the natural landscape, guess how they do that? By cramming in as many people into smallest housing they can, and by discouraging land ownership.
Greed is disguised at many levels, and I no longer take any writer's suggestions or criticisms at face value anymore, especially when money is involved.
Re: The next great urban reset
#6I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning. It feels too vague. Are they proposing the two most likely scenarios are 1. Everyone going back to running their own farms and 2. Continued urban sprawl? What is the reason for this reset? Millennials priced out of the housing market? I'd be very grateful to hear some clarification about this this piece from someone a lot…
I didn't quite get it either. Even the historical "resets" seemed too simplified. There are huge macroeconomic reasons for why dwellings and communities change. I find it interesting of no mention of a global economy influence and how the author seems to think everything is localized.
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#7I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning. It feels too vague. Are they proposing the two most likely scenarios are 1. Everyone going back to running their own farms and 2. Continued urban sprawl? What is the reason for this reset? Millennials priced out of the housing market? I'd be very grateful to hear some clarification about this this piece from someone a lot…
I am actually skeptical of any plan that calls for us to smash more people closer together. A development near my home wanted to smash 5 houses into the same location where 1 was before. With only 12 feet between, (6 feet of yard space for each house) chop down huge trees, etc... I won a small victory at city hall, got a bunch of people to show up, even measured the land and found their plans were 15 feet short! (gre…
Theoretically, I think it makes sense that the less resources people use, including space, the better it is for the natural landscape.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am actually skeptical of any plan that calls for us to smash more people closer together. A development near my home wanted to smash 5 houses into the same location where 1 was before. With only 12 feet between, (6 feet of yard space for each house) chop down huge trees, etc... I won a small victory at city hall, got a bunch of people to show up, even measured the land and found their plans were 15 feet short! (gre…
Theoretically, I think it makes sense that the less resources people use, including space, the better it is for the natural landscape.
People should be forced to use and own more resources than they want/need. Who cares that 6 individuals or families might have wanted an opportunity to have affordable housing and didn't need a larger personal area (because they couldn't afford it)? Shouldn't they just be priced out of the area so that existing home owners can preserve their monoculture? Seems like a cause worth fighting for.
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#9I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning. It feels too vague. Are they proposing the two most likely scenarios are 1. Everyone going back to running their own farms and 2. Continued urban sprawl? What is the reason for this reset? Millennials priced out of the housing market? I'd be very grateful to hear some clarification about this this piece from someone a lot…
> I feel like I'm not really getting this article, though I am super interested in city planning.
The writing style was quite weird. I re-read some paragraphs a few times to realise he doesn't even make any point. It's like an old, ideology heavy manifesto, and so sure of how pure and right it is. It crossed some kind of line for me...
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#10Reset threat #0: Police become ineffective, increasingly working only for corporations and politicians and increasingly militarizing through 'free' gear hand-me-downs. As a result, us-versus-them and FUD mentalities come to dominate, and the increasingly shrinking middle classes retreat from any form of community, leaving them at the mercy of commercial greed which farms neoslums in the workerdrone mass commute peripheries that come to circle all major urban expanses.