Giving you options for links because I'm comradely like that:

  • https://invidious.weblibre.org/watch?v=5ZwbZWrKbGI

  • https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=5ZwbZWrKbGI

  • http://c7hqkpkpemu6e7emz5b4vyz7idjgdvgaaa3dyimmeojqbgpea3xqjoid.onion/watch?v=5ZwbZWrKbGI

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZwbZWrKbGI

Not sure I agree with the thesis or not, but it's interesting to think about. It's true that there are lots of very good non-grid cities. I've always thought that the main purpose of grids is to be understandable to the human mind, which maybe isn't that important a goal, and lots of things flow well in a complex way: look at our own circulatory systems.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    I started seeing them about the same time. Read a few of their articles and, once you get down below the fold, they never seem interested in any kind of answer other than "deregulation" and "stop spending money on things". Its very nakedly libertarian the farther in you go.

    • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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      2 years ago

      Chuck is fairly libertarian and conservative, and he makes the case for walkable cities purely through a financial lens. He is a recovering engineer, with all that entails. It is decidedly NOT an astroturf group, but it is full of folks that still think conservatives can be reached through facts and logic so take it for what it's worth.

    • Pog_De_Maistre [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      yeah like density+public transit is good but something I've seen is a take that we should do transit oriented development without transit. Seems to me to be a neo-liberal attempt to juice more money from public spaces while providing less public services and simply telling people they should suck it up because the charts and graphs tell them it's a good thing.

    • determinism2 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I remember digging into them a couple years ago when I first encountered them and the conclusion was that they had some association with an Omidyar-esque figure.