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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @digitalvor
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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Replying to @380kmh
The suburbs are a testament to the fact you can scale up mobility effectively. I agree human scale mobility is preferable, but that's not married to cities and I think it will be less relevant in the future. I think we're experiencing a boom of twee bourgeois urbanism.
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Replying to @digitalvor @380kmh
I think we're really about to transcend mobility entirely. We're just on the cusp of that.
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people have been saying that for 100 years now man
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Replying to @380kmh
It's funny you mention that because I think saying cities break down barriers to entry is reliant on an egalitarian class structure in cities, which is not at all the case. Nowhere is more economically stratified. It leads back to my original question, who is this for? Not me.
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Replying to @digitalvor
No, not at all--the wealth-building effect of cities has never depended on egalitarian class structure, and almost always occurs without it
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you're totally right that American cities are not "for you" or most other people...because they have extremely high barriers to entry; they are not places for most people to "make it"
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