But if you're down for a WWII history battle, I'm ready.pic.twitter.com/bUP1pChyMR
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @DarwinBondGraha and
Although really much of Japan's urban boom happened in the 50's, which isn't WWII related, and the large infrastructure borrowing of the 80's and early 90's, but still... Point is, Japanese planning is superior to the US in like nearly every way.
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Point is, you don't actually know much about the land use patterns and laws of pre-WWII Japan or afterward, but you feel compelled to use it as an example to discuss the CA 2017 firestorms.
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How'd you conjure that up? >You: "What qualifies you to be an expert" >Me: "Nothing 'qualifies me' officially but we live in the information age" >you: Absolutely unqualified to bring it up.
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @DarwinBondGraha and
Whether the left-left wants to acknowledge it or not, a humanitarian disaster is probably the only way that a large quantity of public housing ever gets built in a major US metro. It’s how London got to 1/4-1/5 council/social flats after WWII bombing made sites available.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @IDoTheThinking and
Quite the contrary. Disasters in American history have mostly been used to expropriate property. If your takeaway is that there's a silver lining to floods and fires, you're not paying attention.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @IDoTheThinking and
In several cases in European history, property was expropriated after disasters and then was turned into social housing.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @IDoTheThinking and
In many American case studies, the natural hazard precipitates the social disaster and leads to displacement. Of course when the victims are relatively affluent & have political power (as is the case for many North Bay fire victims) the outcomes are different.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @IDoTheThinking and
Back to the question -- do you think it should be built according to the status quo? Or do you think there should be some kind of process to at least consider other possibilities with existing community input? If so, how would one structure it?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @IDoTheThinking and
I would hope the residents are organized and empowered to consider changes that would prevent a future fire, create a more sustainable neighborhood, & contribute to broader social goals, like making housing more affordable. I don't know what that looks like.
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In New Orleans, @nolacampanella wrote about tensions between abandonists, concessionists, maintainers and mitigators. City was largely rebuilt along same area although LA loses ~25 sq mi/yr of land. http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/05/footprint_gentrification_katri.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @IDoTheThinking and
I know. I was there for years after the flood. I tried to help public housing residents return. Their homes were taken from them in the name of an "opportunity" to make a better city. Tens of thousands were displaced.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @IDoTheThinking and
Which public housing projects? And what were they turned into? But also, with coastal erosion accelerating, the geographical buffer zone for curbing hurricane impact on the city is disappearing. So next time could be much worse, maybe?
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