Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. "build a jail because it has recession-safe jobs" is one of the most depressing sentences I ever heard.
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  2. Have a look at Egypt's new capital. You don't need to speculate there.
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  3.  @Kamen_Rider_Blade  I strongly think "many" is wrong. Because most people who have experience with both (e.g. US suburbia and EU village) will show you the middle finger if you ask them to move back from their 3.000 people village to their former 3.000 people suburbian wasteland. There are people who want to live in a cabin in the woods. There are people who want to live in nothing that is smaller than a 20 storey building. But most just want an objectivly good place to live, means quite with close amenities and work, preferably with some green. A huge unused front yard where you can't even put up your laundry to dry is not high on the priority list.
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  4.  @Riyoshi000  Well, it's quite impractical to build a huge city into the middle of a sand desert. It's less the distance itself but the seperation. And the little fact that there seems to be an awful lot of places reserved for military.
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  5. That's not a small town, that's a homestead area ;) Really one of the reasons teh US is so spread is that homesteading history. In Europe those isolated houses existed too, of course, but they have consolidated to villages or even agricultural towns (as in a few thousand people inside a wall who mostly still work on their fields in front of the wall)
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  6. Would need a slight renaming, Bär and Lien
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  7.  @armorpro573  Japanese pay per hour is notoriously bad, at least for the typical salaryman. But that is because of the "mandatory" overtime, drinking events etc. that come with it. As for the rest, as always: It depends.
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  8. Here in Germany most (single doctor) clinics, tax accountants and lawyers have their office in what was once a normal appartment. My company has it's local office in the middle storey of an old 3 storey villa. First and third are normal renters living there (Since we don't have customers coming that isn't a problem with noise etc.)
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  9.  @chrismanaloe3507  You win the "dumbest comment of the video" contest, congratulations!
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  10. No one steals them is wrong. Ther eis a real bike stealing problem in Tokyo as you can see by all the posters and police actions. That said on average it's more likely you need to buy a new bike because of age than that it gets stolen. One of the other urbanist channels just had that topic a few days ago.
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  11.  @AndyCutright  In the Netherlands, everyone owns a bike. Statistically speaking more than one. That's just the facts, Maike!
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  12. But the HOA can't end a rent contract? They are not part of that contract. Also can they really do that or did just nobody sue them? A HOA might set rules about the building, but a renter is no building.
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  13.  @Randomadventureswithpaul  Just because your brain is so small (or brainwashed by rightwing extremists it seems) that it can only fit one word does not mean there aren't many. I can think of at least 4 different one, each with it's own meaning, for "taking money with a mandate". btw. in German we have at least 6 words for different uses of "ticket".
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  14. How do planners design suburban developments in the US? They don't. They have it done once and use the same plan every time, just rotating it a bit.
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  15. I always found it hilarious that in the Land of the Free and most of all the Free Market, you are not allowed to build businesses in most of a town.
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  16.  @SaveMoneySavethePlanet  I call it the 10 minute law. If you reach your destination in 10 minutes, it's not far. If by car, bike or foot is what planning and design decide. And since the station is destination it can indeed feel "near" even if you end up traveling 30 minutes in total (albeit that is too much for normal shopping, but for a doctor's visit - works)
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  17. It's a very important destinction (especially for politician) - at least if it is what is in German: the difference between Steuer (tax) and Abgabe (levy). A tax can be freely used, a levy is for a purpose. So if you have a street building levy you can't build train tracks with it or give money to sport groups or anything else. (theoretically, people can be very inventive)
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  18. Did you know that the train track gauge most used throughout the world is a direct successor to the Roman horse arse? Modern mass transportation would look very different without Roman regulations!
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  19.  @1Rab  For the price of 1 iPhone 15 plus I pay 2 month of rent in Germany. And my Japan trip wil be for 3 month, starting in Hokkaido in the summer and moving down with the cooler temperatures. Still need to save the price a few iphones 15+ for that though.
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  20.  @naddarr1  But that is what the member of the HOA has agreed upon. If those rules change, the contract with a third party (the renter) should not be affected. That would be a violation of their free contract. It's like when the rules about paint get changed. If you say houses can only be paid black when it was white before, you can't fine them 2 minutes later for having non-black houses.
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  21.  @AJX-2  For the guild members, yes. As did the phoebus cartel for light bulb makers. (And isn't it strange that even with LEDs today, which could run 10K+ hours, they often burn out around the 1K mark?)
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  22.  @starventure  Okay, now I am sure you are trolling. Crime magnets, my ass.
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  23.  @lifevest1  Wow that's some clasicism right there. 1) If you really mix people, you stop having "near", because it's even closer than near. 2) The "limitless negatives" are often quite limited and anyway, you see the bad parts, but not the good parts because you assume the good parts are not subsidized and you attribute bad "non-subsidized" as being subsidized. It's a bit like one of those "hidden millionaires" comedies where the fraudster is getting the VIP treatment and the millionaire is hired to clean the forgotten backyard.
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  24. Is there any city in the US without a Megacorp HQ or similar that is thriving?
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  25.  @wereoctopus  Just add that taxes are bad, but mandatory HOA fees are good, because they are private, means there is no check and balances, yeah!
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  26.  @starventure  Someone who doesn't want to be in walking distance to a corner store? What a strange species, haven't met that before! I can't believe humans on the other continent are so different that 80% don't want it. Not to mention that a lot of people who live there would like to live in an area with corner stores, but can't move there because it's illegal to build them.
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  27. I don't know how it is today, but just before Corona Uber still made billions of losses. I guess they now think (or have to try because investors are demanding) that they have enough market to push through prices.
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  28. No. You have smaller cars because the streets are smaller. And nobody feels like they must drive a SUV to not get turned into a soup like homogenate when they crash wth one of the tanks the Americans call pickup trucks.
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  29. "of course a Walmart on the outskirts of town surrounded by the usual fast food places" That is a big part of the problem. Neither of those are places of small town feeling right? You want your restaurant in what used to be the town inn, another place that is more a drinking locality and a small supermarket in the center. Preferably right between church and town hall and a park on the other side of the street with a good place for children to play. That is where life happens in a small town and this is what creates that feeling.
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  30. Paper cheque and pneumatic tube, things of the middle 20th century, so you can sit in your car with hurting knees instead of getting at least a bit of movement into your bones. That is so funny!
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  31. If you want to see really small streets, watch one of Cory May's "getting lost in..." videos where he walks through Tokyo, e.g. starting at Shinjuku Station (the worlds busiest train station) and after 15 minutes he is in alleys where you can sometimes touch both sides.
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  32.  @bassam_salim  Yeah, in those hot cities it needs to be a dit different. Old arabic cities were build with walls very close to each other so that there was also shadows. Where it was possible there was also water, cooling down everything. So maybe a modern arabic city has tunnel-like structures for foot and bike traffic? Shadowed above from the sun, open on the side to natural light? Like House | 1m free space | roof starts - small greenery and water | foot and bike path | greenery and water - roof starts | 1m free space | house
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  33. And a lot of the side streets are so small that cars can't even get through - at least US sized ones ;) That is why I love Cory's channel, he wanders along all those small alleys. https://www.youtube.com/c/CoryMay81
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  34. go to "not just bikes"
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  35. The car = diability thing always confuses me. From all versions of transport cars ar the least elastic to disabilities. You can have walking canes, mobility scooters, trikes... all don't need any license and can be used easier than a car. The question is not how can disabled people get around without a car, the question sis how can we allow disabled peopel to only have the option to get around in a car?
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  36. And now imagine: THE FUTURE! Humanity around 2000 did nothing to fight the climate catastrophe. Temperatures in India are going through the roof. 2 billion people are packing up their sparse, dried out belongings and start moving to Northern Europe and Russia. I can never understand why the people who scream about "illegal immigrants" aren't the ones most frantic about fighting climate change. Quite contrary they often hate fighting it. I wonder if the Delhi planners are thinking about that.
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  37. Yes, public transit stops should not be more than 500m away from the next. That way you get (theoretically) everyone within 350m of a stop, or a 5 minute walk.
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  38. And some of those restrictions are totally bonkers. Like "no solar on the roof, since the house is "denkmalgeschützt" (protected building) and must retain it's look, even though the street is so small you can't even see the roof from down there.
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  39. Park and Ride is great - if you do it for bikes. It increases the easy distance from half a mile to two. Thanks to the pi*r² that is a LOT of additional pickup area (Which can also be served by buses for those who don't ride bikes for whatever reason.) Put the train station in the center together with services like town hall and doctors and have the bike lanes go like light from a star. Spread a few groery stores around. Have a 10 minute bus service and train access and you can have 30-50K people in this area with about 20% need for cars compared to the standard US city.
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  40.  @Randomadventureswithpaul  Haha, funny how bad your insults are. btw. look up the actual numbers for both sides. Even only counting (para)military death the US is leading by now. If you also count indirect results the US may actually be at 100 million. But hey, you are happy killing your fellow citizens by lack of health care and oversupply of guns, so what to expect! And a tip: Languages are different, but they share one trait - if you have different words, they often mean different things. Like tax and levy - I looked it up, and it is different from your and your politicion's meaning (according to faqs.in.gov who I would guess know that stuff)
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  41. You are aware that in basically every restauratn the food gets to you thourgh a window? it's just that someone else carries it for you instead of making a long arm in the drive-through.
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  42. I think Italy should just shoulder all those costs because it get's a lot of benefit from all the foreign tourists. It's an investment. That said the church surely get's a lot of money from teh state one way or the other, so... forget it.
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  43. Japan has many small "towns" - more villages - though if you leave the big plains. Or agricultural areas where you have a house ehre and there between fields. (The last is also true for areas in the Netherlands). I really want to make long trip along the mountain rroads through those small villages and look at all those small shrines (I like small shrines).
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  44.  @MJ-zo5gb  The Akabane video is great to show that feeling. Of course there are houses everywhere, back to back, but apart from that, it does not feel like Megapolis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2tc3tGoM8 I followed him around on google maps :D Not always easy, but fun.
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  45. I always find it faszinating that Ameicans are at teh same time trained to be extremely friendly extroverts - hello stranger, well met! - and at the same time hate people who are poor with such intensity. Or maybe it is because of the trained extrovertism, it makes everything into surface only and leaves no place for empathy (which is an extremely introvert feeling).
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  46. By Gorbatchow not sending in Russian tanks even when the East German leders wanted it in 1989. That is why he is still seen as the person who destroyed the sowjet union by man y Russians.
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  47. The wrong element? Like people buying apples? How shocking!
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  48. Homelessness ist only a controversial thing in the US. The best way to lower homelessness is to offer homes. The best way to lower poverty is to give money. If you tell people they should first solve the problems caused by homelessness/money before you give them homes/money, it will always have worse results. Which should not be surprising, but meh... religious beliefs shrug
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  49.  @electriccarpet4  A) Land: Where is the difference for you between owning land and life tiem leasing it (putting aside that it is a lot easier to achiece leasign it) B) Free Speech: If you think communism prevents free speech, that's wrong. Gulags also stupid. Again, that is in the ideal theoretical form, not what people might have done in the name of it - the same as with capitalism. Theoretically poverty should not exist in ideal capitalism. Or racism.
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  50. In many cases ~50 years ago they would put 4-6 storey appartment buildings right on the farm land, with school and grocery shop all together. (At least in East Germany) My old city (30K) had 2 of those 3K-5K micro districts put up in the 80s. Now half of that is demolished because a few years later nobody wanted to live in those anymore :( And instead single family houses (often with just 2m green on the side each ) are build there now. Talk about wasteful. There will actually be less green (that also is not open, so no soccer playing etc) but also not even half the amount of people.
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