Yeah the concrete jungle can really put your mind in neutral gear the longer you move through it. Used to ride my bike all around downtown ft worth tx back in the early 70s. Then got transplanted out to the wide open ranch lands and found some quieter places to ride
that square foot of grass isn’t for the cats it’s for me
City people. They want everyone to be packed into a 5sq mile radius, have busses take them everywhere, but also be able to walk outside and see green trees and wide open fields.
Literally city people really just want to see some trees on the sidewalk, some flowerbeds, and have a few little parks here and there with only a couple big community parks to be able to have picnic or whatever.
Look up Verdun, Quebec(Montréal). There is absolutely massive park running along the Saint Laurence River for many kilometers and it’s fuckin’ awesome without getting in the way of the lovely, mid-density, walkable neighbourhood right beside it. It’s fuckin’ sick. That and Parc Angrignon, too!
Anyway the point is that you could not be more wrong.
Dedicated walkable greenspace is not impossible nor is it a sin to want. New York City, New York, Boston, Massachusetts and Savannah, Georgia (all USA) have plenty of parks and are walkable with public transportation fairly readily available, and those are just three examples.
This looks more like suburbs to me than any city I’ve been to.
Yep, exactly. Actually-dense urban areas don’t need huge signs designed to be viewed from hundreds of feet away inside a moving car.
American cities suck because capitalism sucks up culture and spits out profitable memes.
Advertising, by itself, has probably spelled our god damn doom. Letting anything be sponsored by a corporation has made enjoying the simple pleasures of life damn near impossible.
Easy. Live near the edge of the city, walk ten minutes, be in the forests and open fields around.
And a city full of fun and public transport at your doorstep.
You do realize the pic is of the suburbs, right? An actually-dense urban area doesn’t have tons of signs that are huge because they’re designed to be read from inside of a moving car, you know.
I suddenly understand why suburbanites hate cities: they see the shitty, car-dependent sprawl around them and assume that an urban lifestyle must be like that, but “more,” when in reality it’s entirely different.
