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California needs mixed-use high density housing with pedestrian friendly streets. Frankly, I have also lived in high density California, and all your problems a

• jelliclesfarm 8y ago
  Yes. Smaller inter connected sustainable cities with self governance and cooperative strategies to share commons and resources
• throwawaysea 8y ago
  But if you can walk anywhere, what is the point of the megacities that seem to be fetishized in this discussion? I think you're basically suggesting that it is possible to have a good, high-quality life within a certain geographic closure that is small enough to walk in. That may be true. In some ways, it is suggesting a return to the past. But that also means we could just as well have a web of smaller cities that are interconnected (for example by high speed rail) instead of packing everyone tightly into a concrete and steel jungle.
  • tathougies 8y ago
    > But if you can walk anywhere, what is the point of the megacities that seem to be fetishized in this discussion? I don't fetishize mega cities but I accept the fact that some cities will become the center of certain industries and thus naturally evolve into megacities. This is especially true of places like San Francisco (the city itself) where geography simply gets in the way. If a city finds itself in this position, there is no option but to build up. It cannot pretend to be a suburb. I don't even mean sky scrapers, but it would be nice to have like a four story building or two out of the main downtown areas, rather than the two story max that it seems to have now.