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Professor Shark posted:I had a friend who got super drunk one night and tried to walk home. He became disoriented and went to the wrong house, which happened to not have locked doors because In the US he would have been shot by some nut with a shotgun.
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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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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. Yeah, I've seen those because I spend way too much time looking at satellite images. Phoenix is insane, for a lack of a better term. The south west of the US is especially interesting because it's mostly desert but then you have sprawling suburbs everywhere. It attracts and repulses me at the same time, like a train wreck. I would consider those the real architectural failures.
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Splizwarf posted:Try Bryn Mawr, PA. More 5+ way intersections than there are normal 3 or 4 way ones, in a packed urban setting. Some of the buildings tucked into the acute corners are just ridiculous (like our old doctor's office, which was less than a foot wide for more than 5 horizontal feet at one corner). gently caress ever driving through that town again. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong photos but it doesn't look very packed to me. The main road is even a wide two-lane road. When I think of "packed" I think of any of the old city centers in any European city or in Japan/China/Korea etc..
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Aug 16, 2015 08:11
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Roy posted:I don't know if I'd call it a failure, because it's one of the most popular housing modes in the world. Popular doesn't mean it cannot be a failure. How would replacing one type of car with another car change anything? The way I see it the problem is the car dependency, not the type of fuel it uses (although that is an issue, too, of course). And what does retrofitting suburbia mean?
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Roy posted:Well, if the cars are electric that opens up the possibility of powering them using green energy, and you minimize local pollution. That's going to take a lot of work, considering how widespread the suburbs are, and I am not sure that is realistic.
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Roy posted:Well, if the cars are electric that opens up the possibility of powering them using green energy, and you minimize local pollution. Coincidentally, I stumbled upon this article today: http://www.voxeu.org/article/measuring-environmental-benefits-electric-vehicles (No idea how reliable their analysis is, though)
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The Skeleton King posted:How good is public transit in most of Europe? Prettu good overal and in comparison to thr US. That's because there is less sprawl and the cities are more compact. I used to live in a city of less than 100,000 and I took the bus every day to uni. If you want to travel between cities you can take one of the frequent trains. Of course, if you live in a rural area you won't find too many buses and the trains may not stop but that's to be expected. The difference to the US is that in Europe you could take a car, if you wanted to (car isn't necessarily faster), while in the US you pretty much have to, even in larger cities.
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88h88 posted:I was just about to mention the cabin inside the cabin. cabinception Inception references are still cool and hip, right? Captain Postal posted:And for reference of just how poo poo the building is, and how poo poo Seidler is, this is the penthouse balcony (with owner): That looks really lovely for what I assume is a luxury penthouse. Also, I don't know if it's the perspective but the vertical and horizontal lines don't look straight to me. It looks like non of the parts fit together and everyone just went "Eh, good enough, mate".
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MrMenshevik posted:Here's a real gift for the thread, a collection of pictures from the former East Bloc. Including my personal favorite: I like how nature is slowly taking over.
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Pead posted:They replaced it with a terraced park / shopping arcade now . It's a mall so its not all that great, but it ends up being a pretty cool way to add usable greenspace to the city I've been there. It's pretty cool. I vaguely remember that some random Japanese guy bought me coffee icecream.
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