...they show things people haven't seen before, provoke questions that don't get asked--they have a positive tone, a contagious enthusiasm.
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Replying to @380kmh
If you're trying to shift culture, scolding or complaining won't ever work--and neither will trotting out tired old talking points.
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Be refreshing, satisfying, exciting, unprecedented--and maybe it will work in the end.
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What I’m trying to figure out: how do you get failing exurbia/suburb people to repopulate small regional cities.
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Replying to @michaelbd
short answer--you don't, unfortunately long answer forthcoming (eventually)
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Replying to @380kmh
Could be I’m not deep enough in urbanism, but I see a lot of stuff about densifying mega-cities. Make NY into Tokyo stuff.
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making NY into Tokyo would mean way more single family houses and way fewer apartment blocks...but I digress...
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Replying to @380kmh @michaelbd
...the problem is that large cities keep growing b/c people want/need to live there
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as Tokyo grew, cities in Tohoku stagnated and shrank--the Shinkansen helped turn the tide, but by converting those cities...
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...into "parts," in a sense, of Tokyo--not by provoking real local development. The same would happen here, take Troy:
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Troy is decaying because it doesn't have a productive economy of its own; NYC does have such an economy. So ppl move to NYC...
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Replying to @380kmh @michaelbd
...and will not prefer to live in Troy *unless living in Troy makes it easier to "live" in New York*
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