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MikeJF posted:I mean, our cities are basically in a perpetual parking crisis. They did deal with it... This is why you never wish upon the Monkey's Paw 
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s Houston's dedication to stop black people from moving in to the city centre is praiseworthy Scorched earth white flight Roy fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Aug 9, 2015 10:21
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Houston is the largest city in the United States with no zoning restrictions.
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Aug 9, 2015 10:32
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I would pay to see a movie set in the 80s car park wastelands of Houston. A kind of pre-apocalyptic Mad Max type of film.
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Aug 9, 2015 11:42
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s Did it take Houston until the 90s to unlock the secret of multistory car parks or something?
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Aug 9, 2015 11:46
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Did it take Houston until the 90s to unlock the secret of multistory car parks or something? You don't put in parking lots because you need parking. You knock down whatever building was there before because it's abandoned and you're too lazy to build anything else. That's why most american cities are full of the goddamn things.
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Peanut President posted:You don't put in parking lots because you need parking. You knock down whatever building was there before because it's abandoned and you're too lazy to build anything else. That's why most american cities are full of the goddamn things. Plus it's a win-win for the local government. You don't really have to spend anything to make one, and no-one's going to say "We have TOO MUCH parking in the middle of the city".
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Aug 9, 2015 12:26
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What I'd like to know is why my downtown has so many drive-thru banks. And man, looking through historical photos? It's unbelievable how much they tore down for urban renewal. It's like, "Hey, that library is gorgeous and will stand proud for centuries but I saw a homeless man jerking off in the alley behind it once so it's got to go."
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Aug 9, 2015 12:48
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Yeah, it's funny to realize that the gaps in the Main Street USA where there are parking lots weren't always gaps, but just demolished buildings. It's too bad that the parking ends up being very valuable to the adjacent businesses, so the spaces only gets filled up when land values go way up.
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Aug 9, 2015 18:34
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Collateral Damage posted:This looks like Sim City when you've just zoned a commercial area and you only have mom and pop shops and parking lots yet. Houston is basically a 10 year old playing sim city who hasn't figure out gow to lay a subway system yet.
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Aug 9, 2015 19:02
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUj3P72gzWo
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Proposition Joe posted:
Dear Lord. That makes it *worse*. Do the people coming up with this stuff even have eyes?
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Aug 10, 2015 18:17
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Makes me picture late 19th century greenhouses and also people who think angles are futuristic
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Aug 10, 2015 18:22
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's the next level of spite house technology. Spite houses own and everyone in the thread should read up on them. Sometimes the person that built them were justified, other times they were just huge assholes. But the buildings are great examples of architectural dick moves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house
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Aug 10, 2015 18:28
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See also "nail house", the phenomenon responsible for those pictures from China of houses in the middle of highways and construction sites.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:32
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Is downtown Houston really that tiny? I'm kinda surprised actually. Houston has like three separate 'downtown' areas because they keep abandoning the old ones and moving elsewhere. Houston is nuts.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:23
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It is a common thing in western states. Arizona is a loving wasteland of suburbs and parking lots. It is worse than hell here.
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By the way, if urban renewal's got you down, Troy, NY's downtown kept most of its 19th and mid-20th century architecture intact and is fun to look at in Google maps. To save you some clicking, this is the historic downtown's footprint:  It's a small city but dang if that comparative lack of drive-thru banks and parking lots isn't nice to see. 
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Phanatic posted:Dear Lord. It might look ok from eye level?
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I don't think I'm the only European who gets creeped out by aerial photography of US cities. It all looks so unnatural and unsustainable.
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Default Settings posted:I don't think I'm the only European who gets creeped out by aerial photography of US cities. Zoom out, and it will reveal its eerily bacterial patterning. Seriously though if American cities don't undergo a massive transformation in the next century their ungovernability and ecological sprawl will start to catch up with us in so many embarrassing ways as our infrastructure really starts to crumble. LOL ur suburb has no water anymore.
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Do you pronounce Houston as "Howston" or "Hooston"? I'm asking for a friend.
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goomsnarr posted:Do you pronounce Houston as "Howston" or "Hooston"? I'm asking for a friend. neither
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goomsnarr posted:Do you pronounce Houston as "Howston" or "Hooston"? I'm asking for a friend. Neither. It's "Hyoostun"
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Aug 11, 2015 21:33
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goomsnarr posted:Do you pronounce Houston as "Howston" or "Hooston"? I'm asking for a friend. Do you live in new york?
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Aug 11, 2015 21:34
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Accretionist posted:Houston in the '80s What are they going to do when there are only self driving cars and no need for parking spots?
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Aug 11, 2015 21:52
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Picayune posted:Houston has like three separate 'downtown' areas because they keep abandoning the old ones and moving elsewhere. Houston is nuts. A libertarian utopia, only for the brave.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:56
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This garage was made so poorly it really CRASHED the party! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0I0fDGJfPY
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Aug 11, 2015 21:58
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Yaos posted:What are they going to do when there are only self driving cars and no need for parking spots? I'm pretty sure Houstonians (Houstonites?) define their day to day existence by the endless and enraging commutes they take every day so a switch to self driving cars would destroy the city.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:01
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Yaos posted:What are they going to do when there are only self driving cars and no need for parking spots? Trees, I hope. The closer cityscape looks to forest, the better.
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Default Settings posted:It all looks so unnatural and unsustainable. That's because it is. America used to be much more sensible before the "American Dream" was made up and everyone decided that infinite suburbs and roadways was the only way to live. Just like everything Americans do, it is very short-sighted, unsustainable, and unhealthy, and will end in disaster. Accretionist posted:The closer cityscape looks to forest, the better.
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Yaos posted:This garage was made so poorly it really CRASHED the party! I think that's more of a "way more roof weight than a state without snow has to build for" problem than a "bad construction" problem
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goomsnarr posted:Do you pronounce Houston as "Howston" or "Hooston"? I'm asking for a friend. YouTube fails me, so just pretend I posted a video of General Zod from Superman II saying "Hooston".
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Kakairo posted:YouTube fails me, so just pretend I posted a video of General Zod from Superman II saying "Hooston". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSVOnhLtCs
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The Skeleton King posted:America used to be much more sensible before the "American Dream" was made up and everyone decided that infinite suburbs and roadways was the only way to live. Just like everything Americans do, it is very short-sighted, unsustainable, and unhealthy, and will end in disaster. lol
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Aug 12, 2015 03:21
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I just spent way too long trying, unsuccessfully, to find a video of Ann Richards saying "Houston."
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When you look at satellite images of a city like Houston (or any larger US city, really) you see miles upon miles of the same type of suburbs. I find that oddly disturbing and I cannot look away. It's also weirdly paradoxical, considering that the US puts so much value on individualism and freedom but then most people live in, for all intends and purposes, copies of the same house and are so very dependent on their cars. It's such a waste of space and resources.
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saucerman posted:When you look at satellite images of a city like Houston (or any larger US city, really) you see miles upon miles of the same type of suburbs. I find that oddly disturbing and I cannot look away. If you like sprawl, check out Phoenix or Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs somehow managed to be 100% suburbs due to the large military presence in the area, with almost no high density residencies and a footprint the size of cities many, many times its population.
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Fasdar posted:If you like sprawl, check out Phoenix or Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs somehow managed to be 100% suburbs due to the large military presence in the area, with almost no high density residencies and a footprint the size of cities many, many times its population. I live in Phoenix. Downtown is like 3 blocks.
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I loathe driving so suburbs are the worst invention in human history to me.
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