The future is dense, walkable cities.

[MajorRewrite]

It's not fearmongering to recognize risk. The problem is not walking around their neighborhood, but them coming into your neighborhood and stealing your stuff or assaulting you.

Yeah, that doesn’t happen either. I’m 61 and I’ve never been robbed or assaulted.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Like the NYC subway.

They move 3.4 million people a day.

 

[desecration]

Yeah, that doesn’t happen either. I’m 61 and I’ve never been robbed or assaulted.

Anecdotal evidence, the best kind. Just post your address and I'll post it to a couple of the shoplifting groups on Facebook.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Anecdotal evidence, the best kind. Just post your address and I'll post it to a couple of the shoplifting groups on Facebook.

And you belong to these "Facebook shoplifting groups" why?

https://comb.io/hUsTDN.gif

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Anecdotal evidence, the best kind. Just post your address and I'll post it to a couple of the shoplifting groups on Facebook.

You first. Honestly, if that's your defence against a personal testimony of their life experience , you need to do better.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

They are still going to produce pollution, except now it is on a giant concrete plate that reflects it upward. Spread people out among green space and the pollution is absorbed. Most of them can work locally if we get away from your idea of one giant downtown. Many cities like LA and Houston already have this kind of informal districting in place.

But that means less green space.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

It's not fearmongering to recognize risk. The problem is not walking around their neighborhood, but them coming into your neighborhood and stealing your stuff or assaulting you.

I live within walking distance of a train station. I ride it to work. The main risk I face is not criminals on the train, it’s being run down by an aggressive driver. For months last year I walked past a memorial to a man who was killed that way.

 

[Rightguide]

Fearmongering is dumb. As long as you aren’t involved in the illegal drug trade, you can safely walk around in any neighborhood in the US.

The above needs a major rewrite, but this time try not to be under the influence of any drugs.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I would worry about earthquakes derailing the trains.

Yes, it's obvious from your postings that you worry about dumb shit. Do you sleep with a pacifier to help calm your frayed nerves at the end of the day?

 

[MajorRewrite]

How a poverty-stricken city in east Germany became a re-densified success story.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

How a poverty-stricken city in east Germany became a re-densified success story.

This doesn’t seem to be the future of any of the large west coast cities in the US. Some of the biggest cities are experiencing disinvestment and stagnant or declining population. At the end of the video, narrator asks viewers who live in cities that are not experiencing what’s happening in this German city a simple question: “why not?”

 

[TrailerHitch]

This doesn’t seem to be the future of any of the large west coast cities in the US. Some of the biggest cities are experiencing disinvestment and stagnant or declining population. At the end of the video, narrator asks viewers who live in cities that are not experiencing what’s happening in this German city a simple question: “why not?”

Simple answer that the lefties won't like is why invest in declining cities that are overrun by drugs, crime, and now illegal immigrants dumped there that are a drain on the system. Cities have no money for infrastructure and are laying off municipal workers to fund the illegal flood.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Simple answer that the lefties won't like is why invest in declining cities that are overrun by drugs, crime, and now illegal immigrants dumped there that are a drain on the system. Cities have no money for infrastructure and are laying off municipal workers to fund the illegal flood.

I’ll bite, which west coast cities are “declining” and how?

 

[MajorRewrite]

Simple answer that the lefties won't like is why invest in declining cities that are overrun by drugs, crime, and now illegal immigrants dumped there that are a drain on the system. Cities have no money for infrastructure and are laying off municipal workers to fund the illegal flood.

Most cities are doing just fine. Not laying off anyone. Not in decline.

PS: it’s interesting how the right wing nuts try to devolve every discussion into “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!”

 

[TrailerHitch]

I’ll bite, which west coast cities are “declining” and how?

Dude play stupid with someone else.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Dude play stupid with someone else.

Hmmm.

Given your strident interest and participation in this thread, that's a question that you could easily answer, if you had an answer to it.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Most cities are doing just fine. Not laying off anyone. Not in decline.

PS: it’s interesting how the right wing nuts try to devolve every discussion into “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!”

As one example Denver cut both police and fire departments to fund illegal immigrant services.

 

[wizzard426]

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/inves...ash-freeways-ramps-pandemic-caltrans/2533250/



google SanFranshitco and you get 2b results!

 

[TrailerHitch]

I’ll bite, which west coast cities are “declining” and how?

San Francisco for one, major companies and retailers have left and are leaving due to crime and the homeless population.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

San Francisco for one, major companies and retailers have left and are leaving due to crime and the homeless population.

No. They’re leaving because people are working from home. Care to try again?

 

[wizzard426]

No. They’re leaving because people are working from home. Care to try again?

I see that mathematics aren't your major.

If they live in the city, and start working from home.......they aren't leaving. If they did not live there to begin with then they can't leave you can't add or subtract for either scrnario

Ahahaha the things that pass for knowledge!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I see that mathematics aren't your major.

If they live in the city, and start working from home.......they aren't leaving. If they did not live there to begin with then they can't leave you can't add or subtract for either scrnario

Ahahaha the things that pass for knowledge!

Not everyone who works in a city lives there. Math doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.

 

[desecration]

Suburbs > cities

Backyards, urban parks support bird diversity in unique ways

 

[MajorRewrite]

Suburbs > cities

Backyards, urban parks support bird diversity in unique ways

That article says nothing of the kind.

Denser development preserves rural land that would otherwise be suburbanized. Rural land is much better for ecosystems than suburbanized land.


PS: suburbs are the opposite of the libertarian world you say you support. Suburbs only exist in their current form because of heavy government regulation (zoning) and heavy government spending on roads and utilities extension.

 

[desecration]

That article says nothing of the kind.

Denser development preserves rural land that would otherwise be suburbanized. Rural land is much better for ecosystems than suburbanized land.

No, because denser development means more people which means more land used for agriculture.

If what you say were true, we would have decreasing extinctions instead of increasing ones.