My city paved over a park with an amazing walking trail so a big box store could move in. And the store got the land for way less than what the property was worth. The road outside my house was opened up and connected to other larger roads and now we have constant traffic rolling through for a "shortcut" including semis. My neighborhood is all houses no commercial property for 30+ blocks. We cant let kids play in the front yard anymore.
The US has been building infrastructure for the car at car scale instead of humans at human scale since the 1950s (Edited from 60s). Where do US citizens go on vacation? They go to walkable cities (including the highly walkable and urban planned Disney World/Epcot - https://youtu.be/9hqLo4J6mrQ) then come home and wonder why/how we don’t have that here.
I wish I had this image when I was a kid. My parents told me to play outside all the time. But we couldn't play in the neughbprs yards (even our friends), nor the street, and had to stay within line of sight of the house, so no park either. They take about being able to play for hours outside when they were a kid, how wonderful is was, and how we were gonna be stunted if we spent all our time indoors.
Bitch, mother had 3 square miles that her dad owned, and father was allowed to bike across town from the time he was 8 to go to parks. They lived in a tiny fucking town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in Texas, and they had more to do than we did. Fuck off, outside turned scary, and you've penned us in to protect us. Now let me play Zelda, its got a better outdoors than the slug-infested grass monoculture you call a yard. And we didn't even always have that.
mnlion33 on April 17th, 2021 at 10:58 UTC »
My city paved over a park with an amazing walking trail so a big box store could move in. And the store got the land for way less than what the property was worth. The road outside my house was opened up and connected to other larger roads and now we have constant traffic rolling through for a "shortcut" including semis. My neighborhood is all houses no commercial property for 30+ blocks. We cant let kids play in the front yard anymore.
LightTunnel on April 17th, 2021 at 11:49 UTC »
Strong Towns: The Stroad. A street/road hybrid: https://youtu.be/F6jFnOnjzrk
Strong Towns Curbside Chat playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZJBLI7Y9VoPMrJY2E9EGqx4VV_sSAsX
Not Just Bikes Strong Towns playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa
The US has been building infrastructure for the car at car scale instead of humans at human scale since the 1950s (Edited from 60s). Where do US citizens go on vacation? They go to walkable cities (including the highly walkable and urban planned Disney World/Epcot - https://youtu.be/9hqLo4J6mrQ) then come home and wonder why/how we don’t have that here.
featherblossom on April 17th, 2021 at 12:28 UTC »
I wish I had this image when I was a kid. My parents told me to play outside all the time. But we couldn't play in the neughbprs yards (even our friends), nor the street, and had to stay within line of sight of the house, so no park either. They take about being able to play for hours outside when they were a kid, how wonderful is was, and how we were gonna be stunted if we spent all our time indoors.
Bitch, mother had 3 square miles that her dad owned, and father was allowed to bike across town from the time he was 8 to go to parks. They lived in a tiny fucking town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in Texas, and they had more to do than we did. Fuck off, outside turned scary, and you've penned us in to protect us. Now let me play Zelda, its got a better outdoors than the slug-infested grass monoculture you call a yard. And we didn't even always have that.