15-minute neighborhoods are not a bad idea as long as it does not have restrictions.
From what I understood it means to have the infrastructure designed so that everything is within 15 mins of your home, work, groceries, school, kindergarten, churches (I hope).
Reducing the need to use your car is good, restricting your car use is stupid.
Also the guy from WEF put a lot of emphasis on "not having a car" rather then not needing a car for day to day activities.
There is a reason behind why you can drive through small Midwest towns without HOAs and everything looks pretty nice and well kept, and conversely urban areas with multicultural populations need to be ruled over by community enforcers.
To make it viable you need to have the area around the job opportunities and that would be a mess to implement outside of a communist style where you do not own your home and the state tells you what job you have and where to move.
You say that, but even rural areas are still condensed enough to fit the bill without being stuffed the way cities are.
And I just happen to have the best sort of setup where I am. My workplace, a gas station/convenience store, a pub, and a Dollar General; each inhabit one corner of the same intersection. Three blocks from where I live. And the school is literally at the end of my street.
I know. I hate cities, just saying that is a good way to design infrastructure. I still have to drive the kids to day care / school because the school that was designed to be build 5 mins away it has been delayed for 5 years do to legislation and lack of interest. It would be lovely to have everything in walking distance for everyone involved and it would create better communities.
The wrapping it is not bad, is the way they will achieve it that will suck. High density urban centers becoming mandatory and tax anything related to cars would be my guess.
15-minute neighborhoods are not a bad idea as long as it does not have restrictions. From what I understood it means to have the infrastructure designed so that everything is within 15 mins of your home, work, groceries, school, kindergarten, churches (I hope).
Reducing the need to use your car is good, restricting your car use is stupid.
Also the guy from WEF put a lot of emphasis on "not having a car" rather then not needing a car for day to day activities.
15 minute neighborhoods necessitate high population density. A lot of people simply don’t want to live like that.
For me it's not the quantity of people but the quality of people I'd be forced to live with.
There is a reason behind why you can drive through small Midwest towns without HOAs and everything looks pretty nice and well kept, and conversely urban areas with multicultural populations need to be ruled over by community enforcers.
Even in a townhome community you get incessant barking, dog shit everywhere, and high theft from vehicles.
Apartments? Even worse.
Most people are absolutely pathetic excuses for humans.
Cracka, dis be soundin' raysis. Is you tryin' to say Black peepil be bad naybas or sumtin?
Unfortunately you are correct, mostly do to work.
To make it viable you need to have the area around the job opportunities and that would be a mess to implement outside of a communist style where you do not own your home and the state tells you what job you have and where to move.
You say that, but even rural areas are still condensed enough to fit the bill without being stuffed the way cities are.
And I just happen to have the best sort of setup where I am. My workplace, a gas station/convenience store, a pub, and a Dollar General; each inhabit one corner of the same intersection. Three blocks from where I live. And the school is literally at the end of my street.
Everything the scummy left does is wrapped in a veneer of "not a bad idea". Don't be fooled - they are intentionally deceitful scum.
Yup, you can't give them an inch. Any ground you cede will immediately be used to oppress you.
Unfortunately, as far as government is concerned lately, convincing is a poor second best to coercing
I know. I hate cities, just saying that is a good way to design infrastructure. I still have to drive the kids to day care / school because the school that was designed to be build 5 mins away it has been delayed for 5 years do to legislation and lack of interest. It would be lovely to have everything in walking distance for everyone involved and it would create better communities.
The wrapping it is not bad, is the way they will achieve it that will suck. High density urban centers becoming mandatory and tax anything related to cars would be my guess.
So we should all live in a guild compound? How about no.
Only if you want to.
we're not being given the choice to refuse.