Very skeptical of the urbanist wonks. In evangelizing the walkable built form (which doesn't have to occur at the city scale) they're often (knowing!) foot soldiers for globalist capitalists interests. Distrust!
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That makes it all the more lamentable. Like I said, they're not serving their own interests or those of the citizenry.
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yes--I guess I would just say, be skeptical of urbanists because of their naivety and failure more than anything else
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the whole point of "walkability" and things like that is to make cities places where people can climb the economic ladder again--and the whole problem with urbanism is that maybe just talking about these things isn't the best way to accomplish that
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I think we've overcome proximity-based economic realities through technology. The culture is waiting to catch up. The internet is killing all business but experiential business. Office will be next. Once it goes, cities truly will be reduced to playgrounds and dens
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No, proximity is still incredibly important--this is why so much of the country is stagnating, and why there is no rural equivalent of silicon valley or NYC. We are ignoring the importance of proximity to the ruin of most of the country's economy
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I think the ruin of this countries economy has been engineered by bankers who sold out our jobs to overseas competitors, not the inability to walk to an office building.
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These aren't mutually exclusive--and moreover you're confusing the who/why with the how
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(and office buildings are not the basis of any economy)
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but your skepticism is very well-founded
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