Actually really did love how a college town felt super walkable with affordable housing and cheap good and booze everywhere. I spent a summer at my college... If it were like that year round I'd probably live there.
That's been one not so terrible thing about covid. I live in a major city and don't have a car. I also don't want to use Ubers or public transportation until the pandemic is over. So I've been walking and skateboarding everywhere. Getting more exercise and I've really been getting to know my neighborhood and the ones nearby. I don't think I've ever loved this city so much. I can't believe I was wasting so much time sitting in dark bars. There's so much more to do.
It's also a big reason why New Orleans is fun. You know, besides alcohol and music.
Only place with culture in the usa. I had a cajun friend once and they couldnt shut up about it.
I mean, can't blame them. Especially since that's the only good part in the entire state of Louisiana.
That's what you get when you model after the revolutionary French instead of the inbred English.
New Orleans is free of most of the shitty stereotypes of Americans and it's bc the disgusting Anglos never managed to get rid of the French and Spanish parts
No need to destroy them all, just demolish the ones that stand in the way of actual projects.
I hope a good portion of them would be bulldozed and turned into farms, sorta like what happened in parts of Detroit. Or at least turn all the lawns into vegetable gardens and orchards.
Eventually I'd hope that we could intentionally re-wild some previously settled areas
Nuked of course. Both during and after the revolution.
If we remove the toxic materials and recyclables then they could be left as animal shelters
I mean other than the very obviously wrong thing with the culture, I don't really see that much wrong with The Villages. It lets senior citizens who are retired and no longer need to work still life a life of dignity among friends and have an active lifestyle. I mean that's a very special case, but I can see the mbeing retooled into different things when the times arrive.
Age segregation is not super great, but you're right, a repurpose could do a lot there.
If they are able to have friendships and an active lifestyle, why remove them from society?
Honestly without constant maintenance so many suburban buildings - the big box stores, tract homes, warehouses, office parks, will deteriorate incredibly fast to the point it be a herculean effort just to haul it all away because it won't be livable.
Build up, buy out the suburb homes, demolish them, and build community rec centers, schools, universities, hospitals, etc.
___Lots of infill, ADUs and multifamily units all over. As the suburb houses age, multifamily units will come in to replace them so areas will urbanize over time. This won't apply everywhere, some suburbs would be left to decay while others are invested in. Obviously there would need to be a program to establish people in the chosen places.
My partner and I talk about this all the time. College was great because you could walk anywhere and there was always a community for you when you needed it. My college friends and I keep up despite being spread out around the country, but I haven't felt that sense of community since I graduated.
I just moved from a shit city to another equally shit city but slightly bigger. There's nowhere to walk unless you want to drive first lol into downtown and pay to park. Then you get to walk around a downtown full of bank lobbies and uh, a Jimmy johns.
The apartment complex I live in doesn't have anywhere to walk either so I've just been walking around the parking lot and getting weird stares from neighbors. At least in the shitty town I left there were sidewalks right outside my apartment.
There's a reason capitalists charge so much for the "luxury" of a walkable community. Because it's good.
Right, but that's because the rich hoard good urbanism for themselves.
I literally commuted to my commuter school for 3 years lol. A lot of the time by bus.
Yeah, and also having folks you see daily who you can talk to unsurveilled without risk of getting fired.
And public spaces to socialize where there's no expectation of paying. Where can you go to hang out where you don't need to order something to drink or to eat or to watch? Can you go there when it's raining? That's a Western thing though not just an American one.
That hits home pretty hard. Just walking around campus or the little college town, talking to people I'd see...now I live in yet another sprawling shit-hole and whenever my car has trouble I'm scared I'll be trapped at my fucking house for days.
