Catturd- post on electric cars
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There are too many people now for that to work. For one thing, we don't have enough room for all the new towns that would have to be built from scratch.
BTW, I live within walking distance of the church I attend, the school my wife attended, and a corner store and a couple of restaurants. But I have a huge yard.
More than one model can work.
I would challenge you on something, the idea that there's not enough room for all the new towns... or something like that. So do you think the wasteful development pattern of sprawl is somehow taking less land than a series of compact and walkable towns + neighborhoods?
Seems like I'm talking over your head, but next time you walk around to those areas then realize that they don't exist anymore as a development pattern, and you are living in a remnant of a pre-sprawl or early-sprawl development pattern. Now the problem has metastasized and is choking both our towns as well as swallowing up our countryside, turning it all over on a silver platter to the god of Globohomo.
You don't understand what I said. If all the people in the "urban sprawl" had to be moved into separate towns, it would take more room. Small towns traditionally had much larger yards than you see in the "urban sprawl." This was for privacy, gardening, chickens, or outbuildings like a shop or storage building. In my own example, my house is on about an acre with two buildings for chickens, a greenhouse, and an outhouse (not currently sitting over a hole of course). The other yards in my neighborhood are similar in size. BTW, there is actually a butcher within walking distance.
BTW, the "choking" you mentioned is happening up north. Here in the South, there are miles and miles of countryside between towns. Many people in my town hate going to Walmart because it's so far away. There's actually farmland between the Walmart and the town, and there's a super sized windmill farm (one of the largest on the east coast) across the highway from the Walmart and that has crops planted between the windmills.
So yes, people could be crammed a lot tighter than they are, but that's what the elite want. They want people stacked up in high rises and to keep the rest of the land for themselves. I think towns like mine exists currently is close to ideal, and changing the "urban sprawl" to be like this would take more land. And in most areas, it would be farmland that would be sacrificed.
I hear what you're saying - I'm in agreement that it's nice to have these traditional towns. And I totally reject high-rise tower living as inhuman and unnatural. But I think we build sprawl everywhere instead of traditional towns, even with small lots smaller than suburban sprawl or the same size anyway, but the stuff is arranged differently not along collector roads + culde sacs, more on a traditional street grid pattern.... it's hard to explain but maybe this will help, you'll see how an out of control federal bureaucracy was responsible for creating the beast known as sprawl: https://youtu.be/d9vDcfH03gs
Yes, I've known that "transportation engineers" are mostly responsible for the street designs, but that mostly explains traffic problems, not the amount of land used.
Y'know what's unnatural?
Airplanes.