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Yards are great, but in well designed urban environments you have access to parks, a lot of the problem here is that people want to have their own private space
by wbsss4412 5y ago
Yards are great, but in well designed urban environments you have access to parks, a lot of the problem here is that people want to have their own private spaces for everything.
Groceries are actually far better if you’re not forced to buy in bulk, how many people end up throwing out spoiled produce because they bought too much at once and don’t use it all? The car based grocery shopping model really isn’t great for your health. Further, you end up with _far_ more diverse grocery options in a dense environment, because your neighborhood ends up supporting far more stores.
- josephcsible 5y ago> people want to have their own private spaces for everything. For good reason. Last spring, people in single-family homes in suburbs could let their kids play outside in their yard, but people in high-density housing in cities would get arrested for letting their kids play outside in public parks.
- wbsss4412 5y agoSo we should build our entire lives completely around the basis of a once in 100 years level pandemic? I’m not implying that there are no benefits to private space, there’s trades to both public and private spaces, but the balance is all on one side in North America, and we need to have a conversation about those issues rather than just saying it has to be the way it is because it already is that way.