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by trgn 3y ago
Bikes and cars can coexist. It's not one or the other. Just visited philadelphia. Used to be clogged with cars. Now it's still clogged with cars. But also has great new bike infrastructure with lots of bikers (that weren't th
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by trgn 3y ago
More bollards, trees. Drive like a maniac, crash into a bollard.
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by trgn 3y ago
Robot flying cars would still be awful. The car noise and pollution is already insufferable, now bring it overhead. And the fallout of an accident are already grotesque, now multiply this by 9,81. Flying cars are a fetish: because they are
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by trgn 3y ago
People's imagination is dumb. They picture cars ,the annoyance of being stuck in traffic, see all the empty sky and think, hmm, you know what would fix this, flying cars. But imagine that world, with millions of flying cars, and it&#x2
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by trgn 3y ago
Because they didnt bother to put a roof on it for ideological reasons (postwar architects were obsessed with cubes, purely because it made a statement), so rain streaks down and those skidmarks looks awful on big concrete slabs. So they at
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by trgn 3y ago
Horrific, but salvageable. Put on a wide overhang flat roof, so rain no longer streaks down the wall, and wash/paint it. Then, it will just be a large no frills classroom building. Not great, but no longer offensive either.
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by trgn 3y ago
I almost feel like intuition tells you that. It literally looks like it can fold down flat. A regular truss bridge looks like a honeycomb, straining, but balanced.
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by trgn 3y ago
right on!
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by trgn 3y ago
Function over form is a false equivalency, a modernist fetish. Architect's first commandment should be to strive to a perfect integration of beauty, usefulness and durability. There are many real world examples, so it's not a trad
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by trgn 3y ago
Butcher's crossing is a great book set against this backdrop. The pithy ending - bison fur was just really a fashion fad - is, if not the entire truth, at least very sobering.
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by trgn 3y ago
I miss it after moving back here (midwest).
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by trgn 3y ago
it's crazy how something seemingly minor, the necessity to walk some real distance for meeting daily needs, has such a wide range of benefits. Unconsciously, it makes you eat better and less, otherwise the walking would be very uncomfo
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by trgn 3y ago
> It is a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. If you run against convention too much, even when convention is wrong, you become the zealot guardian, which conjures a family situation with its own distinct pathologies.
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by trgn 3y ago
It's baffling to me, that despite how famous McLuhan still is today, that people somehow do not follow the implications of his criticism (and that of Ellul, Debord, Kaczinsky ;), ...). Technology, in and of itself, the actual physical
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by trgn 3y ago
> so everyone from my wife to my best friends may disappear if I'm not performing at those levels fwiw - a lot of go-getters find themselves surprised with the support and love they continue to receive from their spouse and friends
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by trgn 3y ago
Maybe it's a takeaway, but not the one from the article I believe. The author writes that, because he grew up there, because the "bland" (olive garden, strip mall, ...) suburbs are familiar to him, therefore, he belongs there
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by trgn 3y ago
> because you're smart enough to perform at a 10th grade level doesn't mean you're mature enough or will fit in. Makes sense.
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by trgn 3y ago
oki thx, I guess I don't have a clear idea of the wide range in how public schools are organized.
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by trgn 3y ago
that's awesome! we have to drive about 2 hours to path of totality.
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by trgn 3y ago
> shouldn't be artificially held back. but are they? It seems like every school district has magnets, AP tracks, relationship with community colleges, extracurriculars, skipping a year,... for the smart ones.
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by trgn 3y ago
Agreed. Just shift them a year ahead, or in an AP track, or bury them in extracurriculars. It really doesn't seem that hard to me, to accommodate a precocious kid, especially in large schools or large public school districts. (shoot me
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by trgn 3y ago
My gut agrees with you, but then we'll be keeping our young kids out of preschool to go see the eclipse. So much for principles lol.
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by trgn 3y ago
Yes, that's true, but the style also changed so dramatically, not just means of production. e.g. machine production does not have to mean that overall building proportions became so weirdly unattractive as well. But really, just becaus
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by trgn 3y ago
The schism was modernism, a mental breakdown in the west after the world wars. What was easy, convenient, efficient from a machine perspective, therefore was wholesome, aspirational, valuable from a human perspective. Other explanations, su
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by trgn 3y ago
There was also an enormous urban population boom in the heyday of capitalism, late 1800s early 1900s, and architecture was absolutely glorious. It's really not the post war population boom. It was the post war mindset, modernism, a spi
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by trgn 3y ago
Manhattan's population dropped 25% from its peak in the early 1900s. Pre-war was just a different era, this is more of a function of changing living standards, people live larger, not of contemporary housing dynamics.
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by trgn 3y ago
Absolutely, it's a trade-off. In many parts of the country, people cannot make this trade-off though. it's cars or nothing, even in the more "urban" zones with condos, apartments, etc...
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by trgn 3y ago
true - you feel very free when everything is accessible on foot. Healthier, more centered, less like a bag of potatoes. It's having options, agency. You can live in a car-free city, and still have a car for the stuff you see in the car
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by trgn 3y ago
it's a win win win!
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by trgn 3y ago
the aspirational future of AI-traffic is kei cars and vans puttering around. Hope to see it in my lifetime still.

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