Genuinely one of my first steps from completely unaware vaguely liberal teenager to where I’m at now was joining the “New Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens” Facebook group. Once you understand how capitalism has destroyed urban development idk how you don’t start becoming a communist
Interesting, I remember it basically being “fuck cars” pretty consistently, but they definitely had a problem of thinking that if you just let developers build more housing everything will be fine without addressing any other part of the problem
All of the urbanists around here talk about "smart density" and "better zoning laws" to solve housing problems, but this is in explicit exclusion to rent control or public housing or removing streets and highways/replacing with transit. It's the people who just want to talk about how we should all ride bikes. High/medium income homeowners that think of transportation as "choices" they can select from, not a core element of equity. They love the idea of minor policy changes making their own stuff cheaper but balk at raising property taxes.
Tbh I used Facebook longer than a lot of people I know. For some reason the way Facebook’s interface works (or at least how it did by like 2019) is fucking crack to my brain, even more so than Reddit or this site. I had to delete mine because it was genuinely bad for my mental health.
Urbanists in my area are all neoliberals
I dont get how you can understand how cities work and not be inmediately radicalized
What the fuck
Genuinely one of my first steps from completely unaware vaguely liberal teenager to where I’m at now was joining the “New Urbanist Memes for Transit Oriented Teens” Facebook group. Once you understand how capitalism has destroyed urban development idk how you don’t start becoming a communist
last time I was in NUMTOT it was lib central filled with car apologists
Last time I checked it they were still shitting and moaning about the mods supporting Bernie in the Dem primaries.
Insanity.
Interesting, I remember it basically being “fuck cars” pretty consistently, but they definitely had a problem of thinking that if you just let developers build more housing everything will be fine without addressing any other part of the problem
All of the urbanists around here talk about "smart density" and "better zoning laws" to solve housing problems, but this is in explicit exclusion to rent control or public housing or removing streets and highways/replacing with transit. It's the people who just want to talk about how we should all ride bikes. High/medium income homeowners that think of transportation as "choices" they can select from, not a core element of equity. They love the idea of minor policy changes making their own stuff cheaper but balk at raising property taxes.
wtf, teens were using facebook in 2017?
Tbh I used Facebook longer than a lot of people I know. For some reason the way Facebook’s interface works (or at least how it did by like 2019) is fucking crack to my brain, even more so than Reddit or this site. I had to delete mine because it was genuinely bad for my mental health.
Sad.