"willkinton247" (willkinton247)
01/31/2014 at 10:28 • Filed to: Planning, Cities, Naivety, Atlanta
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"willkinton247" (willkinton247)
01/31/2014 at 10:28 • Filed to: Planning, Cities, Naivety, Atlanta | 3
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I have a degree in Urban Planning, and articles like this from Giz make me roll my eyes. There's so much naivety at play here. For one, the idea of a suburb is not going to change, because we American's like things called a "yard." People like owning land in America, and that's a deeply ingrained part of our culture. People are not going to stop aspiring to be landowners, and for this reason Atlanta was actually designed to be hard to get into in order to raise property values outside of the city. You may enjoy living in your NYC apartment, but some of us do not want to live there. Shocking, I know.
Sure, a public train system that reaches everyone in the city and the suburbs would be ideal, but that is never going to happen in any American city. It's foolish to think that is the issue.
This article is armchair planning at its finest.
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vicariousILive
> willkinton247
01/31/2014 at 10:48 |
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Another person that has never owned a car nor ever driven in snow wrote this. I looked at her posts, they suggest that she is one of those environmental journalists that like to point the finger and provide solutions without taking into the consideration the logistics of implementing such solutions. I bet that drives you mad as a urban planner.
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willkinton247
> vicariousILive
01/31/2014 at 10:50 |
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Exactly.
And how do you reply to me, as opposed to Gizmodo?
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vicariousILive
> willkinton247
01/31/2014 at 10:54 |
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I dunno. I think I found a wormhole.
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vicariousILive
> willkinton247
01/31/2014 at 10:54 |
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Seriously, after looking at that authors posts I hit the discussion tab at the top your post