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“How cities were constructed before cars” From what I understand about city life in the 19th century, I don’t think we should see that as any kind of target st
by cbeach 3y ago
“How cities were constructed before cars”
From what I understand about city life in the 19th century, I don’t think we should see that as any kind of target state.
Cars enable people to visit the countryside and the coast (not just the tiny fraction served by unreliable, expensive and limited public transport service)
Some rural areas would be completely disconnected without car ownership.
The kind of metropolitan utopianism behind “15 minute cities” paints a picture of a country where everyone and everything outside densely populated urban zones is irrelevant. It’s a gloomy and drab picture, rather like the oppressive and uniform concrete society envisioned by the Soviet Empire.
- klabb3 3y ago> Cars enable people to visit the countryside and the coast No question that cars is an absolute necessity in rural areas, or at the very least a liberator for a decent life. Not to mention transportation of goods through trucks. While I have seen a few city folks who are kind of oblivious around that reality, the vast majority of people, myself included, are talking about how to make an already urban life better for day-to-day life. In those cases both USSR and China just happen to share similar traits to the rest of the world, and are by no means representative. Cities in Europe, south east Asia, Japan etc are not modeled after communism – an ideology that came after most cities were already built. The best path has been by countries who have recognized the importance of road transit in rural areas and for transportation while building ample and effective public transit for popular routes both within and between cities. It’s not a visionary idea - it already exists in most of the developed world.