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Alex Murrell has a great piece on this: https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
by toppy 3mo ago
Alex Murrell has a great piece on this: https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
- lotsofpulp 3mo agoThe generic city one makes no sense. Does the author want each city to invent a new physics? Not only are there quite a few different looking buildings in each of the cities, but given the constraints of not have unlimited funds, surely one can understand that many columns of steel, concrete, and glass will look like columns of steel, concrete, and glass from afar.
- dmd 3mo agoCities could look like https://www.arcosanti.org/ https://www.arcosanti.org/ Cities could look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67 Cities could look like https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-blue-city-of-jodhpur-jodhpur-india https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-blue-city-of-jodhpur...
- lotsofpulp 3mo agoThose are urban areas with a dense grouping of relatively small and lower priced construction. The Alex Murrell link has pictures of dense groupings of enormous buildings with very high priced construction.
- rmah 3mo agoThe first two look interesting, the last looks like a huge slum. They all look like bad places to live. IMO, of course.
- marssaxman 3mo agoThat's funny - to me, Jodhpur is most immediately appealing of the three. It reminds me of the medinas I visited in Fez and Marrakesh: overwhelming at first, as a visitor, but compelling, and full of life. I'd rather live in a thriving urban place like that, all human-scale and pedestrian, than some sprawling, soulless, car-dependent suburb like the ones a majority of North Americans inhabit.