15-minute cities

[TrailerHitch]

Walkable cities are much more friendly to the handicapped. With accommodations like curb cuts, people in electric wheel chairs can get around on their own. Not to mention people with visual impairments or brain injuries who can’t safety drive a car.

Curb cuts have been universal in new construction for at least 2 decades and all rebuilds include them too. Nice try claiming that for your city Delusional Land.

 

[TrailerHitch]

What they have in common is lots of roads, cars, suburbs and all that has led to high home prices.
Whats Tennessee doing to stop Tennessee from becoming just like these state?

It's true people are leaving due to higher costs of living, housing and taxes. But the last few I talked to, especially from Chicago, told me they are escaping rampant violent crime and politicians and DAs that seem oblivious to it, openly condoning it.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

It's true people are leaving due to higher costs of living, housing and taxes. But the last few I talked to, especially from Chicago, told me they are escaping rampant violent crime and politicians and DAs that seem oblivious to it, openly condoning it.

The crime rate in Memphis is 3x what it is in Chicago.
So you’re arguing that people are leaving Chicago to go to a place with higher crime??

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Curb cuts have been universal in new construction for at least 2 decades and all rebuilds include them too. Nice try claiming that for your city Delusional Land.

My suburban Bay Area neighborhood was built in the 1960s. About 14 miles from downtown and a million miles away in terms of noise, congestion, homeless encampments and crime. Sidewalks have been there since the development was built, curb cuts were were done in the 80s and 90s. Biggest problem are tree roots breaking up the sidewalks. City ordinance requires trees along the sidewalk strip easement, and homeowners are responsible for tree maintenance and sidewalk repair. I spend $400 per year to have my tree professionally trimmed and have to have the sidewalk repaired every 5 years or so. Typically $500 - $1,000 depending on how much damage there is. Happy to pay for keeping the street and sidewalks shady, the neighborhood looking nice, and keeping the sidewalks safe for seniors, folks in wheelchairs, and a smooth ride for babies in strollers.

 

[TrailerHitch]

The crime rate in Memphis is 3x what it is in Chicago.
So you’re arguing that people are leaving Chicago to go to a place with higher crime??

Do you believe all there is in Tennessee is Memphis? Please tell me you aren't that ignorant.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Do you believe all there is in Tennessee is Memphis? Please tell me you aren't that ignorant.

Says the man who ignorantly believes strangers.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

BSG, you sure do like the ideas of really dense cities and keeping your neighbors close.

Maybe you would like televisions with cameras so that you can watch each other.

A Brave New World

Between us, have you ever seriously considered Hong Kong?
They speak English there and they live like rats in a cage...

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

BSG, you sure do like the ideas of really dense cities and keeping your neighbors close.

Maybe you would like televisions with cameras so that you can watch each other.

A Brave New World

Between us, have you ever seriously considered Hong Kong?
They speak English there and they live like rats in a cage...

I prefer to use walkable cities like Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo as models to aspire to.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Says the man who ignorantly believes strangers.

Make sense or stop posting to me.

 

[TrailerHitch]

I prefer to use walkable cities like Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo as models to aspire to.

Why aspire? Go to your paradise.

 

[Chernosoth]

I prefer to use walkable cities like Paris, Amsterdam, and Tokyo as models to aspire to.

All those cities are in nations that are very deeply fucked with all sorts of issues. Japan has some great innovations for fitting most of the population into small seismically active areas, but mostly in the areas outside the megacities. Tokyo's skyscrapers and general rats stuffed in a shoebox way of life will be ended by the same energy shortages that empty the suburbs. The Fukushima nuclear meltdown can be marked as the beginning of that end. Putting a nuke plant in one of the world's most seismically active regions next to the ocean shows the desperation to keep electricity flowing for an extremely urban population without fossil fuels.

 

[Rightguide]

The 15 minute cities in LA, SF are tent cities. Don't need transit>

They call them Tip-Toe Towns and it isn't the tulips you have to tip-toe through. Takes 15 minutes to negotiate a few yards from tent to tent.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

They call them Tip-Toe Towns and it isn't the tulips you have to tip-toe through. Takes 15 minutes to negotiate a few yards from tent to tent.

I walk around LA all the time. The right-wing media paints a false picture of what life is like in big cities.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Interesting analysis. Driving and earning the money to pay to drive (buying a vehicle, gas, maintenance) consume more of our lives than you might expect.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Interesting analysis. Driving and earning the money to pay to drive (buying a vehicle, gas, maintenance) consume more of our lives than you might expect.

Then sell yours and walk and bike EVERYWHERE!!

 

[TrailerHitch]

I walk around LA all the time. The right-wing media paints a false picture of what life is like in big cities.

I'm sure you spends hours every day walking through the tent cities of LA.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Make sense or stop posting to me.

I’m sorry you don’t understand logical posts.

 

[TrailerHitch]

I’m sorry you don’t understand logical posts.

As soon as you make one I may try to understand your convoluted postings.

 

[Rightguide]

I walk around LA all the time. The right-wing media paints a false picture of what life is like in big cities.

There is no right wing media.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Then sell yours and walk and bike EVERYWHERE!!

So irritable and emotional. Maybe you need a nap.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I'm sure you spends hours every day walking through the tent cities of LA.

There are a few tents on a side street a few blocks over, but I wouldn't call three tents a "city".

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

As soon as you make one I may try to understand your convoluted postings.

I’ve made two. You didn’t like me pointing out that Memphis is 3x higher crime rate than Chicago.

 

[TrailerHitch]

So irritable and emotional. Maybe you need a nap.

This tactic is so boring. Please come up with something new.

 

[TrailerHitch]

There are a few tents on a side street a few blocks over, but I wouldn't call three tents a "city".

As if that's all there is in LA.

 

[TrailerHitch]

I’ve made two. You didn’t like me pointing out that Memphis is 3x higher crime rate than Chicago.

We know that Memphis is a bad place. Funny thing is people aren't abandoning Tennessee like they are Illinois, New York, and California.