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Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

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Re: Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy, more self-sure self-righteousness. You obviously don't get the perspective, because you literally aren't telling me their perspective, you are telling me a caricature you've made up about their perspective. You've combined that with some moralizing about why your personal view is the only possible morally right one, and how it's not just the right personal view, it's the only possible sane and moral view of g…

I'm sorry that this issue leads you to attack me personnally, twice now. Also nowhere have I said that I wanted to force anything on anyone. I pointed out effects that this choice for sprawled suburbs (so in a city setting, and not rural, which is a different deal) has real consequences. And that maybe it's not frowned upon because those people are seen as NIMBY's or speculators, but simply that those choices are unc…

"I'm sorry that this issue leads you to attack me personnally, twice now."

So you don't see what you did, repeatedly, as simultaneously offensive and personally attacking literally everyone who holds an opposing view. Yet you clearly understood that what i did was.

That's super-interesting.

Because what you wrote, twice now, definitely was perceived, as an attack (the only people i can imagine seeing otherwise are those who fervently support your view).

Neither of these were different.

Even here, instead of saying "hey, i wasn't trying to be offensive, let's step back and try to understand things", you've passively-aggressively "apologized" (IE not a real apology), another form of attacking folks.

FWIW: I don't actually have a strong opinion, i'm just opposed to the attacks you've made here, repeatedly.

When you approach problems this way, no one is even going to bother to read or listen to what you have to say.

(and yes, i understand the irony, the difference, i guess, is that i know i'm doing it, deliberately, in an attempt to get you to see it)

Re: Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

#262

Not the crux of the article, but: > This doesn't mean that they, or the even higher-cost, more congested coastal metros, will adopt Manhattan or Tokyo-style density and transit patterns. Instead, Austin and San Antonio might be the new Houston and Dallas. My goodness, can we /please/ stop this false dichotomy that a city either has to be a Tokyo megalopolis or a suburban sprawlfest? I don't think any reasonable perso…

"You only have to look across the ocean to see it"

You only need to look across any of the Harlem, Hudson, or East rivers to see it. Brooklyn, the Bronx, and much of New Jersey follow this development pattern, more or less. San Francisco's population would double at Brooklyn's density.

Re: Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

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Not the crux of the article, but: > This doesn't mean that they, or the even higher-cost, more congested coastal metros, will adopt Manhattan or Tokyo-style density and transit patterns. Instead, Austin and San Antonio might be the new Houston and Dallas. My goodness, can we /please/ stop this false dichotomy that a city either has to be a Tokyo megalopolis or a suburban sprawlfest? I don't think any reasonable perso…

People who are worried about turning San Francisco into Manhattan also don't know what Manhattan is even like! The Upper West & Upper East Side as well as Harlem do not look anything like e.g. the Financial District. Even within Manhattan there is a huge variety of building heights. I used to live in Yorkville in a six story building in an area filled with other six story (and smaller) buildings. We had a nice park w…

Even Hell's Kitchen, where I live, is still primarily composed of 5- and 6-story walk-ups.

Re: Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

#264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50 million Americans visit NYC each year. Times Square is a marquee draw for tourists. There are ~150 million (134m in the last Presidential election) active American voters. They tilt older and financially better off, which is also the combination that is most likely to have a substantial travel history. I'd bet on the majority of active US voters - 75m+ - having visited Times Square at least once in their lifetimes…

Where did you get that 50M number? That sounds more like the total number of tourists altogether, only a fraction of whom are Americans.

50M looks an awful like the total tourist numbers reported in this article[0]. I still hold the view that less than half of registered voters have been to time square.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/nyregion/record-number-of...

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