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@tornado9419 admittedly the USSR did also build copy and pasted towns, but they at least ensured maximum variety of ways to assemble the concrete slabs so each building was unique per neighbourhood. Also every neighbourhood had a central park or plaza, and a subway entrance in that park/plaza. It’s basically a more humanist way of doing the same basic idea.
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@TapOnX even prior to the industrial revolution, large cities often had long lines of identical housing stock built out of clay or brick. Even going back millennia in some cases! I guess it’s just a thing human brains like to do. “Well I know this works so let’s just… do a lot of them.”
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Of course people need access to the modes of transportation of the time. The question is how thoughtfully they’re integrated into the space, how much consideration is given how what daily life is like. People first and transport second. Not… people first and no transport.
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@unvergebeneid having your properties south or west facing is important for heat and light in the colder parts, vice versa north and east in the hotter parts for more shade.
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@afgor1088 it’s older than that, it predates the founding of any of the colonies. It’s called Terra Nullius. Clearly some people still cling to it.
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@crazy808ish not really — transit oriented development is fine if it’s centred around the humanist needs. But these were built to sell land along the railroad first and the rest was an afterthought. That’s the actual message in that sentence.
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@d.b.4671 now I understand why it’s Evergreen Terrace. Damn I mean, the UK has plenty of tree streets too, but not to the point where it’s an Everytown kind of thing.
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@MilwaukeeF40C was there not a 1700s canal boom in the Americas like we had over here? Or were they mainly just for freight rather than people due to the distances?
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