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Similarly the 'strongtowns' naming doesn't elicit anything positive/meaningful to me. And if a stroad is the flavor of them, then I'm not interested.
by karmakaze 3y ago
Similarly the 'strongtowns' naming doesn't elicit anything positive/meaningful to me. And if a stroad is the flavor of them, then I'm not interested.
- jimbob45 3y agoTheir subreddit activity agrees with you. Posts get little to no traction on a regular basis. That said, their model of change is murky. On one hand, they seem to want to be governmental consultants and on the other hand, they want to educate the citizenry on how to advocate for more robust city design. The middle road they’ve taken between those two doesn’t really fit anyone.
- martijnvds 3y agoSo it's more like a .. middle stroad?
- vortegne 3y agoPerhaps if branding and terminology nitpicks are scaring you away, then maybe you never cared about the issue in the first place. Is suboptimal branding really something that should keep you from being engaged with important things? What does it say about us that this is normal behavior now?
- karmakaze 3y agoI'm interested in the problems--what turned me off was the stroads proposal. The bad naming of strongtowns is just a passing comment on the jargon.
- emodendroket 3y agoI imagined the object of writing this article and sharing it was convincing people who, indeed, don’t yet “care about the issue.” If the point is just preaching to the choir, sure, don’t worry about it.
- 15457345234 3y agoThe jargon bothers me as well, though I figured they picked the weird word so they could use analytics to see how well their concepts are spreading and being repeated. Sometimes something just has a weird... vibe... for want of a better word, and this gives that in a big way.