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https://www.mapc.org I have no idea what your threshold is for "good." The "Digital Hub" thing is extremely new and could get good depending on the content they add to it.
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Cicero posted:Doesn't basically everything look better with greenery and water features though? Pretty much. It turns out that people, being goofy, hairy apes that evolved in a place with lots of plants, really quite like being around plants. Noisy, concrete jungles actually overload your brain and make you less perceptive and dumber. Just slapping down some trees not only breaks up the urban noise (both visual and audible) but it makes people way happier.
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Insanite posted:https://www.mapc.org I know MAPC well, but they are a good example of good, thank you.
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Elendil004 posted:I know MAPC well, but they are a good example of good, thank you. https://www.escp.org.uk Or https://www.push.gov.uk/partnership/ as a slightly larger model?
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Getting involved in some tenant protection stuff in my community. Nothing particularly radical--increasing eviction notice periods for disabled/elderly/less than AMI households, tenant right to purchase, etc. The bluster you encounter from landlords (not surprising) and "urbanists" (a little more surprising) can suck. Housing policy discourse in my young, dynamic, Bernie-voting area so often seems to start and end with "have you heard of supply and demand?" or "tenant protections discourage housing construction," and I'm not quite sure how it got that way or how to undo it.
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You just have to show people why these type of projects are important and why the neighborhood should have it. Arguing that workers need places to live and that there is a need can be effective as well. By the by, is you city/area super white? Say more than 90 percent?
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There's an unshakeable faith in the idea that the market will provided, assuming you get out of its way. You might have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, but eventually private developers will develop themselves into obsolescence for reasons. If we were like Tokyo (only WRT to zoning--not so much with mass transit, any number of gov't programs, etc.), everything would be golden. It's like everyone has decided that housing policy is solvable with high school economics and the same Curbed article passed back and forth forever and ever, which is funny until you realize that this is a rising part of politics where you live, and your friends and neighbors are disappearing at an alarming rate. (Semi-relevant article here.) My city's about 4/5 white, though people with influence in gov't or activism (or hell, just people who own land) are well past that 90% mark. Insanite fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Brutalist megablocks >>>>>> lawns gently caress lawns so loving hard.
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Lawns are an abomination. I have a tiny one that I'm tearing up and replacing with hideous concrete slabs.
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Thanatosian posted:Brutalist megablocks >>>>>> lawns On the other hand, the area around City Hall in Boston is the worst looking place in Boston.
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No, we don't bother balancing out our Brutalism here.
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Thanatosian posted:Brutalist megablocks >>>>>> lawns  Lawns are trash tier green spaces.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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the best single text i can think of in terms of american urban development in the 20th century and why suburbs/sprawl exists is crabgrass frontier by kenneth jackson, although you can also just read the wiki to get the gist of the book and a general idea of what happened to lead us to this point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabgrass_Frontier being published in 1985, it just misses the cutoff of the american urban renaissance as white flight was reversing itself in the late 80's/early 90's. and arguably gentrification is the inversion of white flight, we can call it white return. although gentrification is not explicitly a race based phenomenon, it's entirely class based, as we know race and class are nearly identical in the united states when talking about broad demographic trends. i'd follow that up with how cities work by alex marshall which is a more general overview of sort of the nuts and bolts when it comes to land use/transportation, who dictates land uses and why, how the development process works etc. for gentrification specifically i'd suggest the new urban frontier by neil smith which argues that gentrification is just a new kind of colonialism, gentrification by loretta lees etc. which is a textbook collection of specific explanations and case studies of gentrification, and a neighborhood that never changes by japonica brown-saracino for a more anthropological look at gentrification from both sides
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I just read Gentrification and New Urban Frontier. They're good reads. I just had a copy of Peter Moskowitz' How to Kill a City come off of hold at my library. I'm only a bit into it, but it seems like a lighter, poppier, angrier summary of concepts those other texts explore.
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It's often said that the Ghostbusters were the most effective tenant's rights advocates of their time.
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I was asked to crosspost this here from the retail thread. I want to emphasize that some of the research this is based on is shaky - I am not confident about most of the "blue outline" properties in question. Hopefully this weird little deep dive is of interest.Discendo Vox posted:I think I'm underselling this. Let me try to give the issue some scale; let's talk about Seacoast. The below is the result of some googling I did last year when someone asked me to try to identify people who were backing confederate apologist groups in SC.
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Insanite posted:It's often said that the Ghostbusters were the most effective tenant's rights advocates of their time. Well unless you are living impaired.
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That's when Beetlejuice takes over. He's tough, but fair. e: This is floating around and might be interesting to you if you're ITT. Sorry for the Richard Florida exposure, but the paper's behind an academic paywall. Does Upzoning Boost the Housing Supply and Lower Prices? Maybe Not. Insanite fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Hey, dead thread. This is a neat post: Why American Costs Are So High (Work-in-Progress) Levy places a lot of the blame for stupid American transit project costs on culture and process rather than traditional bugaboos, like dastardly unions.
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But it’s gotta be unions because I already hate unions, that’s why costs are so high in famously pro-union right to work states and costs are so low in the famously anti-union France.
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He does have a post refuting the union stuff more directly, if you're into that scene: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/01/08/meme-weeding-unions-and-construction-costs/
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Interesting Tom Scott video on a Scottish building that's too historic to tear down, but too run down and graffitied to do anything else with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkmDmMzZO8
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I love how cake and eat it too towns can be. "We want economic growth and new jobs but no changes to taxes and we don't want to develop anything"
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https://twitter.com/JSadikKhan/status/1106678391007264768 This is also a good time to point out that in some states (or maybe federally? idk) road widening is considered good for the environment because it allows cars to go faster. So putting a train in that has a level crossing with a road is bad for the environment because it slows down the cars.
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/JSadikKhan/status/1106678391007264768 Our lack of city planning post World War II is galling to say the least. Paving over tracks in the 60s to 80s was even worse.
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Nothing can be solved, seemingly, unless we heavily restrict private car use and decommodify housing. That’s how it feels, anyway.
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I don't really see what "commodity" housing has to do with being terrible at urbanism. Now, houses as investments are bad because they incentivize people to support policies that restrict supply and thus increase the value of their investments. It's like letting Apple and Samsung vote on whether other companies should be allowed to make smartphones.
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Cicero posted:I don't really see what "commodity" housing has to do with being terrible at urbanism. Also ownership opportunities in cities right now essentially is buying condos and renting them out at a ludicrous price to make a profit on them. And to launder money.
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What would probably help the most would be to discard the idea that the Right Way to Live is to own a big rear end house in the suburbs with a big rear end yard. Ideally we would get closer to the days where you lived either in the place you worked or really close to it.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Ideally we would get closer to the days where you lived either in the place you worked or really close to it.
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Remulak posted:It would also be great if we could opt out of the monetary system. Perhaps employers could provide an alternative currency, or 'script' that could be used in their benevolently provided housing? I think he’s talking about shopkeepers living directly above their businesses like Polk Street in Frank Norris’ McTeague, not company towns.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:I think he’s talking about shopkeepers living directly above their businesses like Polk Street in Frank Norris’ McTeague, not company towns. It's this. Up until very recently people generally lived very close to where they worked often in the same building. The smith's house was also probably his shop so if you needed a new tool made you just paid him a visit.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's this. Up until very recently people generally lived very close to where they worked often in the same building. The smith's house was also probably his shop so if you needed a new tool made you just paid him a visit. aside from single use zoning, a big reason why this went away is expanded transportation capabilities making for easier commutes. suburbs didn't begin with cars, they began (arguably) with railroads, and depending on what you want to call a suburb they go back even farther than that. you can't really put the genie back in that bottle tradespeople and agriculturalists definitely used to (and still do, somewhat - especially in agriculture) combine residence and workplace in the same location, but what does that mean for service sector workers in a context of high labor mobility? and even in ye olde times, tons of people didn't live immediately adjacent to their workplace, it just seems that way because cities were much smaller when the primary method of commuting was by foot Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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luxury handset posted:aside from single use zoning, a big reason why this went away is expanded transportation capabilities making for easier commutes. suburbs didn't begin with cars, they began (arguably) with railroads, and depending on what you want to call a suburb they go back even farther than that. you can't really put the genie back in that bottle Considering "streetcar suburbs" were a thing long before cars, you're absolutely right. That being said, the existence of streetcar suburbs also demonstrates that with proper public transit, you don't have to rely on cars to get to a job, even one that's far away. It means planning your life more around pubic transit routes, but if we were actually willing to invest the necessary money and resources in expanding public transit into real and efficient networks it's not so far-fetched. It's also important to remember that cars aren't just killing us from climate change, they're also killing us from regular old smog and air pollution. quote:The Exhale (Exploration of Health and Lungs in the Environment) study tested the lung volume of eight and nine-year-old children in more than 25 schools in east London, and the findings were shocking. As a result of the high levels of traffic pollution, the children’s lung capacity had been stunted. Dr Ian Mudway, a respiratory toxicologist at King’s College London, said at the time: “The data show that traffic pollution stops children’s lungs growing properly … by eight-to-nine-years-old, children from the most polluted areas have 5-10% less lung capacity and they may never get that back.” Cars are killing us with climate change, they're killing us with air pollution, and they're killing us with sedentary lifestyles. If we priced those externalities into the cost of owning and driving a car, and regulated cars to try and minimize these externalities (by doing things like banning diesel cars outright) they would be much more expensive and much rarer than they are now. Instead we give them enormous subsidies and design cities so that they don't work without mass car ownership.
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Cars are the enemy of human happiness.
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side_burned posted:Cars are the enemy of human happiness. drat straight. I have to argue with NIMBYs and racists alllllllll the time about transit ridership Yes, NIMBYism and racism are pretty much two sides of the same coin cuz "muh property values". The arguement about low ridership means people arent going to ride transit is super dumb because what it actually means is that transit isnt reaching people that need it so they should expand instead of contract. As a Virginian, a line that has at least 3 stops in Fairfax would be a HUGE boon to ridership because of GMU and how loving huge Fairfax is getting. 1 in Fair Oaks Mall 1 directly in GMU The thing is that since Metro in DC is the result of an Interstate Compact the people you have to put pressure on the local governments to put pressure on the board. Waaaaay too many people think Metro is controlled by the feds and thats the way WMATA likes it. In short, if you want cars to start dying off two things need to start happening: population densification(gently caress you and your 2 acre plot suburbs), and expanded transit options. Go to your local government hearings and start making noise because NIMBYs will turn out in droves from several districts over to protest any change that benefits brown people or threatens their selfish interests. We had someone come from 3 districts over to protest development near a school district that their kids didnt even go to lol
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The topic of San Francisco home prices and hours-long commutes came up in the company-wide general chat channel a bit ago (Midwestern company, for reference). Everyone talking about how ridiculous it all was without really addressing solutions, until one guy pops in and says "wow, wouldn't it be nice if more multi-family buildings were built closer to where the jobs are and on major transit lines? It's a shame wealthy single-family house owners are actively blocking them there!" Immediate response from otherwise very intelligent coworkers: "excuse me? I wouldn't want someone to replace MY house, either!" and "pffft, there are too many high-rise office buildings as it is--we should just distribute companies' offices better throughout the region!" People have a tough time looking at a problem from outside the frame of reference they're comfortable with.
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