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Originally Posted by pdxtex
Let's think outside of the box and discuss what your theories are on what makes a city great. Why are the best cities in the world so livable. What is the ultimate goal? Human longevity? Ultimate pleasure? This is a thread for discussing how the best cities became that way and what they are doing to preserve that
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Took many years of such nonsense in college, and the one thing that struck me was how many decades of Urban Planning were actually full of Utopian megalomaniacs with terrible ideas.
I came to find that the best thing urban planners can do is to build the "truss' a very basic groundwork and then let nature take its course. Way to many people in the "urban planning" universe seem to think they can force solve their problems when the best urban environments they want to emulate and export around the world were hardly planned at all and instead the result of decades of natural growth and layers upon layers of different decisions and times to produce....idk magic?
Some of the ideas to retrofit suburbia are decent considering what they are working with and even though people on this website like to bash it modern apartment designs in the USA are much better today than the last several decades and eventually will contribute to better urban environments down the road.
Keep in mind many of the old red brick tenements in NYC today that give it Character were cheaply built slums for factory workers back in the day. They were certainly not seen as classic and desirable places at the time they were built.