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> San Jose, for example, is building housing like crazy And they have ruined what used to be beautiful farm land and orchards to create ugly urban sprawl punct
by jcoffland 9y ago
> San Jose, for example, is building housing like crazy
And they have ruined what used to be beautiful farm land and orchards to create ugly urban sprawl punctuated by strip malls and plagued by violent crime. There's a very good reason San Jose, not San Francisco, was the site of the first major European settlement on the West Coast. Aside from having fantastic weather year round, San Jose was once beautiful. Few would argue that now.
I know people need jobs and housing but unrestrained urban sprawl is a terrible solution to that problem.
- quotemstr 9y agoIt'll be beautiful once again one day: imagine vines growing over the scattered, silent ruins of our decadent civilization.
- jcoffland 9y agoThe Romans probably thought they would be the last civilisation too.
- epistasis 9y agoSan Jose was ruined when suburban sprawl ripped out all the orchards. Or it was ruined when the orchards replaced the prior natural beauty with industrial agriculture and rigid rows of trees. There is no urban sprawl in San Jose, it's all ugly suburbs.
- Fins 9y agoSan Jose looks anything but urban. It's a big boring suburb, just like everything else between Gilroy and SF.
- astrange 9y agoThe farm land was ruined in 1950, not in 2018. That's when it was all paved over to build single-family houses. And "urban" is the opposite of "sprawl"; YIMBYs are looking for infill and walkable development, which will eventually end sprawl… maybe. You might want to check out some Apple Park drone videos - it's gone and time traveled back to 1940, and only cost like ten billion dollars!