The future is dense, walkable cities.

[AndersonsBiographer]

Across the nation, loads of office buildings have been converted to apartments or condos. It’s a continuing trend.

In Singapore and Dubai, a lot of the mega-skyscrapers are practically small, self-contained cities. You may well go to a job in the same building you sleep in, or one next door to it. You buy your groceries there too. Has problems, but it has benefits as well.

 

[MajorRewrite]

In Singapore and Dubai, a lot of the mega-skyscrapers are practically small, self-contained cities. You may well go to a job in the same building you sleep in, or one next door to it. You buy your groceries there too. Has problems, but it has benefits as well.

Mixed-use buildings are common in US downtowns, but a mix of office and residential is less common than a mix of retail and residential.

In the downtown of the smallish city where I live, there’s a former office building that was converted to a hotel on the lower floors and condos on the upper floors.

Another former office building has a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above.

The strong demand for downtown living has driven up the price of all the condos.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Interesting...

...haven't seen much of that in my city. Doing anything non-standard with property here is a total pain, I'm told.

Though it is semi-common in New England. Glad to hear that it's spreading.

 

[wizzard426]

 

[MajorRewrite]

New York is a dySToPIan HEllHoLe. Happy first day of summer! Flip through the pics to see the true horror of the city.

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[dkovic77]

New York is a dySToPIan HEllHoLe. Happy first day of summer! Flip through the pics to see the true horror of the city.

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Oh it’s terrible, look at all those non-white people!

 

[MajorRewrite]

Grand boulevards would solve the housing crisis, Calthorpe says

Redeveloping commercial corridors, using policies like AB 2011 in California, enables new housing at a scale big enough to eliminate the housing shortage in the US without displacement.

It’s a smart idea. Add homes to commercial strips to create compact, walkable neighborhoods. Under-utilized land is just sitting there in the form of overly large parking lots and vacant retail properties.

And it doesn’t require big government investment. Change the zoning and developers will take it from there.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Urban American is carrying rural America on our backs.

 

[TrailerHitch]

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Urban American is carrying rural America on our backs.

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

 

[AlexBailey]

Yet you'd be dead in less than a month if rural America stopped feeding your pathetic ungrateful asses. It's a symbiotic relationship, we feed you, and you survive to bitch about everything.

Say you can’t understand a chart without saying you can’t understand a chart.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

 

[TrailerHitch]

Let us spend our money the way we want to make our cities more livable.

Enjoy it...with no food. You are the one who keeps pissing and whining about suburban and rural life. Honestly, we don't give a fuck what you do in your jungles called cities.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Picking a fight with an opponent who is already falling down looks pointless. Cities generally have a future, but most of the USA's huge cities are goners for various reasons, starting with climate change with desertification and rising sea level on the west coast and rising sea level covering much more of the east coast. The cities that survive will be located where they have the resources to make what people need, including farm tools.

Recent developments in naval warfare may shut down global shipping before the ships completely run out of fuel. The Ukrainian technique of putting bombs on jet skis to sink Russian ships may eventually be done to any commercial ship anywhere, for piracy or terrorism. When jet skis and steel armor are both forgotten in the postindustrial world, pirate ships with ordinary cannons will be enough to sink wood sailing ships. The cities with the brightest futures are likely on the Great Lakes and a few big rivers: Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Our reptilian alien overlords are going to stomp on cities like Godzilla.

 

[MajorRewrite]

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

That’s a bizarre comment, even for you.

Okay, maybe not for you. Are the voices in your head particularly loud today?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

LOL. Didn't realize you were into mass murder, but whatever, I guess.

I want dense housing and mass transit. I want the government to stop spending money to subsidize suburban sprawl.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Enjoy it...with no food. You are the one who keeps pissing and whining about suburban and rural life. Honestly, we don't give a fuck what you do in your jungles called cities.

I can walk to the market without worrying about being attacked by feral hogs.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I live in a nice house in the country. I don't want to be able to hear my neighbors farting.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I live in a nice house in the country. I don't want to be able to hear my neighbors farting.

I'm eating sushi right now that my daughter and I walked to get.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I fear for what is to become of rural towns.

 

[TrailerHitch]

I can walk to the market without worrying about being attacked by feral hogs.

This is how ridiculously delusional you are. Who is supplying your market? Some urban farmer? Seriously every time you post I wish your dense urban areas would happen. Crime, disease, famine (once the rural areas tell you to fuck off) will make your paradises look more like hell.,

 

[TrailerHitch]

I'm eating sushi right now that my daughter and I walked to get.

Um, Yay? I ate tomatoes from my garden today, and applesauce I made from apples off my very own apple trees. I didn't even have to walk to a market, or dodge feral hogs to do it.

 

[TrailerHitch]

I fear for what is to become of rural towns.

They will continue to be overrun by city dwellers who turn them into the shit holes that they left.

 

[Saint_Ann]

They will continue to be overrun by city dwellers who turn them into the shit holes that they left.

The town of 3600 I grew up near to is slowly being bulldozed.

 

[TrailerHitch]

The town of 3600 I grew up near to is slowly being bulldozed.

The town I spent my early youth in is almost totally unrecognizable anymore.