https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1416018223238107137
Fuck lawns plant some fucking trees bitch I'll kill you
Building geometrically pretty isn't very sustainable though. Following the contours of the land so roads divert run off into ponds and collect it, orienting houses to sunlight and prevailing winds depending on local climate. Growing a permaculture food forest around the community and vegetable / herb gardens within. This is my shit.
I'm thinking one could make the overall layout more orderly, keep a small access road to each cluster (so as to allow maintenance vehicles, deliveries of things too heavy to carry in by hand, emergency vehicles, etc) but include a covered foot/bike path along it and orient these clusters around a central hub (maybe a thousand people per small hub) with something like a general store and light rail station (plus whatever other central amenities the community needs that close, rather than being able to commute by rail to), and then fill in the space between residential clusters with woodland, ponds to handle drainage, parks, and community gardens. I'd honestly keep the fences between houses in favor of providing more dedicated communal space in the otherwise unused space outside rather than limiting personal spaces.
Depending on the population density needs, the closest clusters to the transit hubs could be replaced with apartment buildings so as to ensure that the most people are closest to transportation, while those who want more space can make the tradeoff of having a longer walk.
I was gonna make a joke about Thatcher and this being the physical manifestation of "no society, just individuals" but honestly this just makes me feel ill, like a horror movie or something.....deeply inhuman
I'm sure it will look better when the geodesic domes are completed.
I mean there probably were before they cut them down
Yeah, about that
Apparently there are trees nearby, they cut the forest to make space for this waste.
Imagine a single apartment with 180 flats on the same land space. You could have a park, playground, parking, a couple of shops and a preschool on the same plot of land. Or you can have a few wedge shaped plots of land two bedroom houses where you can't even take a walk. The worst part is that they mow the vast spaces between clusters.
That would still be horrible with trees, what the fuck is that. Do they plant corn in the space between? what the fuck
Is this a mars colony or something? This looks alien, do people really live like this?
hideous randomly placed circles and roads divided by acres of dying cut grass when they could have had tiled hexagons with even roads and natural meadows in between
What is wild is that they could have had a better design if they used spirals or fractal patterns - perhaps this vaunted Nordic Socialism is too entrenched in pizza slice dynamics.
