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  • Dec 30, 2021
    Nozuka

    Broke boi’s ITT mad as s***

    Nah I just don't want a mega home if anything I want a 70s ranch style home

  • Dec 30, 2021

    cool video op

    you have a good voice for this kind of thing

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    All car centric suburbia is ugly as f*** if we’re being honest. Even midrise housing is undermined either with parking lots or a massive garage with greater ratio of spaces dedicated to cars. Total inefficient and probably why a lot of American cities suck 😵‍💫

  • Maartins

    I recently got into urban planning

    But North American cities suckkkk man. The infrastructure is just down right hostile for normal people and is built for soulless burbs and cars

    There’s a couple exceptions nyc, montreal, boston, chicago, toronto, DC, SF etc and a couple trying to revamp in a dif direction like atl and austin but even then you go 15-30 minutes out of the core of any of these places and it’s the same soulless car burbs

    We need more medium density homes like in europe so we can actually build neighborhoods with character and culture. And every city over 750k needs like hella buses and rail (overground or underground) plus more quality options connecting major hubs. Imagine taking a cheap 1.5 hour train from philly to nyc

    Cars companies really built the idea that you need a car to live in your own neighborhood or town

    I f***ing hate it. I'm glad I live in a neighborhood that has a small convenience store on the corner like 10 mins away. Can't imagine driving out your neighborhood for like 5-10 mins every time you leave

  • Dec 30, 2021

    love ur videos

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    Maartins

    I recently got into urban planning

    But North American cities suckkkk man. The infrastructure is just down right hostile for normal people and is built for soulless burbs and cars

    There’s a couple exceptions nyc, montreal, boston, chicago, toronto, DC, SF etc and a couple trying to revamp in a dif direction like atl and austin but even then you go 15-30 minutes out of the core of any of these places and it’s the same soulless car burbs

    We need more medium density homes like in europe so we can actually build neighborhoods with character and culture. And every city over 750k needs like hella buses and rail (overground or underground) plus more quality options connecting major hubs. Imagine taking a cheap 1.5 hour train from philly to nyc

    What about Mexico City?

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    New Orleans has terrible public transit, but it has to be the most walkable city in years south

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    J__

    New Orleans has terrible public transit, but it has to be the most walkable city in years south

    the trolleys are kinda cool

  • Dec 30, 2021
    ghosting

    the trolleys are kinda cool

    I hate them. They're super slow.

    Also, the one I live by has been shut down due to a building collapse from 2 years ago

  • ghosting ®️
    Dec 30, 2021
    J__

    What about Mexico City?

    Top 3 city but has some of the worst traffic ive ever experienced in my life

    (missed a flight going out mexico city despite leaving like 4 hours before it)

  • Dec 30, 2021

    It’s jarring how a person can make all the right moves in their 80 year life to own one of these after a developer has acquired enough wealth to built hundreds or thousands of these. Couple of these neighborhoods in my town and i wouldn’t mind living in one

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    @op get your bands up and stop hating

  • Dec 30, 2021

    i hate them too especially in those dead end cities with nothing to do. They just build mcmansions and they all look the same!

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    BIGGWAVE

    @op get your bands up and stop hating

    Wouldn't you rather live somewhere like this tho?

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    Malakas

    Wouldn't you rather live somewhere like this tho?

    thats what im sayin
    s*** look so good

  • Dec 30, 2021
    BIGGWAVE

    thats what im sayin
    s*** look so good

    That’s not a mcmansion tho, mcmansions are those houses that have the same overly safe architectural design and get copypasted along an entire block. This one’s more of a Mediterranean villa

  • Dec 30, 2021
    Malakas

    On that note, this type of s*** got to go as well

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  • I have never heard of this term until reading this thread

  • Dec 30, 2021
    J__

    What about Mexico City?

    Yes they have a great metro system and good density!

    My comment was anglocentric my b

  • Dec 30, 2021
    Malakas

    Wouldn't you rather live somewhere like this tho?

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    Maartins

    I recently got into urban planning

    But North American cities suckkkk man. The infrastructure is just down right hostile for normal people and is built for soulless burbs and cars

    There’s a couple exceptions nyc, montreal, boston, chicago, toronto, DC, SF etc and a couple trying to revamp in a dif direction like atl and austin but even then you go 15-30 minutes out of the core of any of these places and it’s the same soulless car burbs

    We need more medium density homes like in europe so we can actually build neighborhoods with character and culture. And every city over 750k needs like hella buses and rail (overground or underground) plus more quality options connecting major hubs. Imagine taking a cheap 1.5 hour train from philly to nyc

    What’s so bad about metro areas with a clear city center?

    I was considering moving to Dallas or Houston and the homes 25-30 minutes out from the cities are beautiful. I was looking at 5k sq ft+ 4+ bedrooms for only 6-800k. If I want that in nyc where I am now then it’s a 10 million+ condo or 2 million+ home 20-30 minutes outside the city

    I always see people say Texas cities are the worst examples of urban planning but it doesn’t seem too bad. I’ve lived in nyc all my life and stopped taking public transportation in favor of driving anyway.

  • Dec 30, 2021
    Jihyo

    What’s so bad about metro areas with a clear city center?

    I was considering moving to Dallas or Houston and the homes 25-30 minutes out from the cities are beautiful. I was looking at 5k sq ft+ 4+ bedrooms for only 6-800k. If I want that in nyc where I am now then it’s a 10 million+ condo or 2 million+ home 20-30 minutes outside the city

    I always see people say Texas cities are the worst examples of urban planning but it doesn’t seem too bad. I’ve lived in nyc all my life and stopped taking public transportation in favor of driving anyway.

    Because it’s an unsustainable form of urbanization

    Land resources are finite, energy used to fuel car dependent burbs has real material effects on our environment, not everyone can or should drive, you lock out low-income and low mobility people from resources and a relatively good quality of life

    Im not anti single homes but Texas is absolutely the worst example u could use. Cities like houston and dallas as large and diverse as they are should absolutely be bustling, cultural centres yet what you have is huge highways cutting through no sort of life in the city limits and people just driving to the city for work

    You should kno this especially cus u lived in nyc where there are a million things to do and the density and the public transport is what allows for that

  • Dec 30, 2021

    thought thread was about mcdonald's theme parks

    disappointed

  • Dec 30, 2021
    Dedication 666

    people like then so they buy them

    Are we not allowed to critique the s*** taste that most Americans have?

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