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I wish people would get over their fear of "manhattenization" or whatever. Manhattan is a good place. There should be more places with similar density and infra
by quotemstr 10y ago
I wish people would get over their fear of "manhattenization" or whatever. Manhattan is a good place. There should be more places with similar density and infrastructure, not more artificial restrictions on construction.
- Analemma_ 10y agoFear of Manhattanization is just NIMBYism and pulling up the drawbridge, nothing more. "I've got my lovely two-story single-family house in an urban core, so buzz off." I agree that people should get over it, but telling people to "get over" being a NIMBY has never worked before and isn't about to start now, unfortunately.
- quotemstr 10y ago> telling people to "get over" being a NIMBY has never worked before Sure it has: you just outvote the NIMBYs. One of the big problems is that cities no longer annex their suburbs. In the Bay Area, the City of San Francisco really should be everything from Golden Gate Park to San Jose. Once you set up coherent governance, you can enact coherent policy. In general, if you feel like society just isn't working like it used to work and you can't figure out why, try to see what's actually done differently now and think about why it might have changed.