Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "How To Make Cities Beautiful Again: 7 Design Secrets" video.

Garden beds, wooded areas in cities, public parks, preserving of natural water ways, spacious sidewalks and bike lanes are all good starters to work with. I hate seeing everything so cemented up into dull, ugly places where nobody wants to be.
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Most Americans have abandoned suburbia to live in pre-WW2 era cities or small towns. America no longer has the money to prop up such dysfunctional car infrastructure anymore. Rural American folks hate the city politics and all the nonsense that happens in American cities. All being said, it’s about time we dissolve the American Empire.
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Why don’t we see more art deco? Art deco is modern architecture that makes effective use of modern materials to make buildings beautiful/unique. It’s not like you need to hire craftsmen with 15+ years experience to build art deco structures. Art deco is simply the use of horizontal/vertical lines, trapezoids, hexagons, rhombus, rectangles and other basic ornamentation that are easily to produced without much difficulty or increase in cost. Personally, I think most architects have become too lazy and too sloppy to produce anything valuable.
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@pin65371 America suburbia tries to incorporate both rural and urban all into once place and it fails to do both. Most Americans don’t even have a proper grasp of what the federals classify as urban and rural. A small muddy road leading into a wooded area is considered rural, but anything with asphalt paving, stop signs, traffic lights etc. is considered urban by the federals.
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@garyjackson3531 America became a highly federalized empire after the Civil War. The northern states handed over every Republic to the Federals in Washington DC. We’ve been an empire since then, not a republic.
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@garyjackson3531 That’s great we’re seeing more “small town” developments. Just don’t go asking the Federal government for money when the maintenance bills come due in 15 years.
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