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"make the city stronger and more financially resilient" "target productive development patterns" "incentivize productive development" It's hard to read Stron
by gok 7y ago
"make the city stronger and more financially resilient"
"target productive development patterns"
"incentivize productive development"
It's hard to read Strong Towns articles because they write almost entirely in euphemism. What they're really advocating is smaller homes, more density, and less driving. They would really sound much less Orwellian if they stopped using so many weasel words.
- MattGaiser 7y agoThey realize that few people will accept the trade off of having less house.
- username90 7y agoThat isn't true, people pay a lot more to live in the denser part of towns even when they are at equal distance from the city center.
- zaroth 7y agoSee the famous George Carlin routine on "soft language". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
- projektfu 7y agoI'd say these are more handles than they are euphemisms. They make it pretty clear in their site that "stronger and financially resilient" means not having unfunded liabilities, "target productive development patterns" means density and mixed-use zoning, and "incentivize productive development" means getting rid of zoning laws with mandatory setbacks, single-dwelling rules, parking minimums, etc.