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The hills around the bay area could be filled with smaller scale, well built cities like this, if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them.
by carsongross 12y ago
The hills around the bay area could be filled with smaller scale, well built cities like this, if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them.
But... we aren't. Rather we will get sprawl and ridiculous techno-mansions.
'murica!
- sehr 12y agoBe the change you want to see in the world, sarcasm doesn't really get anybody anywhere
- vinceguidry 12y ago> Be the change You want him to build cities?
- sehr 12y ago> if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them. No.
- coryrc 12y agoYes. http://www.cohousing.org/ http://www.cohousing.org/
- kimdouglasmason 12y agoI looked at their website. All I can see is a group of moneyed people choosing to live in an unconventional way, in semi-rural environments. For people earning a wage and living in large cities who have no choice but to rent, it's utterly meaningless. Please explain how this is anything but a privileged group of white people congratulating themselves on their ability to live precisely how they want.
- vinceguidry 12y agoActually, I visited one co-housing group in the middle of Atlanta, the people living there just seemed like regular homeowners, not any more moneyed than any other homeowner. Co-housing is something I think you do if you don't have the cash to just build whatever you want on your huge plot of land, but still want to live someplace with amenities. Just share the cost. So co-housing might well be one way forward here.
- kimdouglasmason 12y agoOne thing that gets you less far than sarcasm is condescending pithy platitudes. Edit: Rather than quote meaningless self-help fodder, you could have pointed out that it is difficult to convince people of the benefits of a different approach by labelling them. It is instead better to point out the costs of what we're currently doing wrong, and the benefits of the proposed way.
- mkempe 12y agoSame ought to have been done in SoCal.
- wyager 12y ago>if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them Clearly the objective scale of civilization is having narrow streets.