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Most urban spaces these days are incredibly depressing. No points of interest within walking distance. Lots of large and difficult to cross roads. Combined with
by Gigachad 3y ago
Most urban spaces these days are incredibly depressing. No points of interest within walking distance. Lots of large and difficult to cross roads. Combined with the very real danger of cycling in many places. As well as the loss of small businesses that used to be interspersed in residential areas.
- kibwen 3y agoYou say urban, but this applies to suburban and rural areas as well. If anything, urban areas are the places that have probably resisted these factors the most effectively. For everyone else: "You get a stroad, and you get a stroad, everybody gets a stroad!"
- Robotbeat 3y agoA thing not mentioned on urbanist Twitter as much: Teens are not allowed in malls and a lot of other (effectively) public places now.
- fulladder 3y agoHow is that possible? The goal of a mall is to attract shoppers and sell stuff to them. Why would they turn away a shopper due to age? Especially these days, with malls dying all over the place, it seems quite peculiar that they would turn away any shopper!
- banannaise 3y agoGroups of teens hanging out at the mall buying a few small things are now considered a nuisance. They're not spending enough money to be welcome there.
- kwere 3y agotroubled teens happened, once upon a time a mall cop was scary enough to force teen to behave a little.
- burgerrito 3y agoI went to college in area where its absolutely car-dependent, the road sucks for the cars too. Not only it's very hard to walk to anywhere, there's just very little amount of free public spaces, like park for example.. It's very depressing. I wish my country doesn't follow US' style of building a city.
- drukenemo 3y agoThose urban characteristics are not found in Europe typically, and yet the problem seems to be global.