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Originally Posted by badrunner
Modern Paris was designed as a master planned utopia. Efficiently designed American cities have achieved productivity and wealth never before seen in history. It shows what's possible, when the work isn't being done by rank amateurs  |
But does that wealth make us any more happy? It seems like the gap between the haves and the nots has grown exponentially, especially in the nimby happy urban west. I agree cities are only as great as their inhabitants and there has been a palpable, shift towards greed and anti social attitudes. This country has become bitter and mean. Maybe its always been like and technology has just magnified the shitiness. Even my old as dirt; half blind, never leaves the house, no email having mother has noticed. I'll be curious to see what happens in Minneapolis and Oregon now that sfh exclusive zoning has been banned. I don't know it's going to produce a more egalitarian city. It might just create expensive town houses.