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The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban

The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and then think that every road in the state must accommodate it) -- DPZ has other stuff worth checking out: https://www.dpz.com/Projects/All https://www.dpz.com/Projects/All My favorite is in Jakriborg, Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg You learn about this sort of stuff if you are plugged into the urbanist blogs / podcast scene

splatzone 8y ago
Could you share some of these blogs and podcasts?
- 0x4f3759df 8y ago
  Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/ https://granolashotgun.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
AnimalMuppet 8y ago
> The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. That's kind of the point of suburbs - to be more child safe/friendly than the city. It's not a bug, it's a feature. (It may not be a feature that you personally want, though...)
- 0x4f3759df 8y ago
  Yes that's a major reason people move to the suburbs (but not actually why they were created in the first place), but on the other hand you can build a safe town where the buildings are close together.

splatzone 8y ago

Could you share some of these blogs and podcasts?

0x4f3759df 8y ago
Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/ https://granolashotgun.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/ I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler

AnimalMuppet 8y ago

> The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. That's kind of the point of suburbs - to be more child safe/friendly than the city. It's not a bug, it's a feature. (It may not be a feature that you personally want, though...)

0x4f3759df 8y ago
Yes that's a major reason people move to the suburbs (but not actually why they were created in the first place), but on the other hand you can build a safe town where the buildings are close together.