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The problem is cars. Older cities were designed too, they were just designed for people instead of cars. A lot of what looks like spontaneous generation was jus
by chrismealy 11y ago
The problem is cars. Older cities were designed too, they were just designed for people instead of cars. A lot of what looks like spontaneous generation was just designed so well you can't see the design.
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- pm90 11y agoIts not that simple. Sure, it was much more complicated back then since you had to think of trams and public transportation whereas now you just build highways. But, the amount of corruption in public projects has increased tremendously, spending on infrastructure has reduced etc.
- Adam_O 11y agoYour reply reminded me of a lecture from an ocw course I'm watching on and off. He covers a bit about infrastructure design and policy choices in that lecture. I thought it was really interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpcbBk5ckas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpcbBk5ckas
- icebraining 11y agoThis talk by Andrés Duany is quite interesting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwd4Lq0Xvgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwd4Lq0Xvgc
- patrickburke 11y agoJakriborg is a city built in 1990 designed for people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg I think we wasted all our capital on freeways and cloverleafs