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New structures for family-friends?
Chatting with a friend recently and came up with this novel idea. Historically, many people would end up married, having kids, and having responsibilities to their family and local community and groups.... - annabeth...
What will the future literally look like?
This idea comes from watching Mad Men- seeing smoking and drinking freely at the office for example, and my brother once pointing out that if a show or movie ever wanted to make it really clear that it was set in the 1990’s, all they’d have to do is have multiple people driving... - Arun...
A future I love is more village than city.
Perhaps there's a sci-fi version here where humans become much much better at cities, but the version I like at the moment is Village 2.0. I want to keep networked, light-speed global communication, so knowledge can continue to evolve, enrich, and compound.... It’s so interesting to imagine but super difficult to formalize. I’ve been inside some planned communal living spaces and it definitely wasn’t for me. I think the mix of people gets so dynamic as the number of people goes up. I think this one will come down to tests of time.... - MISOLDIER...
It's a twist on existing thought process infrastructure. But that makes it good right out of the gate. The 1st rule of building a community is tobe sure you want to be a part of the process. It can be tiring...... Roads as interconnection of all, metaphor for selves
This is kinda silly and obvious in some ways, but the other day I was really struck by a simple fact I’d never considered: All the roads are really one road… I live on Bryker Dr, and it "dead ends" into 34th street on one end and 30th on the other.... Dead shopping malls are coming back. But not the way you’d expect. (This is about taxes).
See that empty shopping mall over there? The one that died during Covid 19? It has a huge footprint, but generates little to no tax revenue to fund the city. Not property taxes, not sales tax on purchases, not even income taxes for the state. It’s like a black hole.... Is this the future of affordable housing in America? A 7X10 foot pod for $325 a month . . .
Ten feet long, seven feet wide. That’s smaller than a prison cell, possibly. And it can be all yours for the low-low price of $325 a month. To be fair, this is probably less than the cost of constructing a prison cell.... - josefine...
I’d recommend reading a little bit of Christopher Alexander. My biggest takeaway from him is something like: - what can you do to the space to make it more whole and give it more life?... It’s hard for me to tell what Brisbane wants as a whole. I do have the sense that it lacks ambition, though. Part of what makes this hard is the diversity of the different suburbs.... - tommy...
When I read "Protect 80%+ of the Earth’s land for environmental stewardship" my gut reaction was "yeah, right ~rolls eyes~" but then I immediately started thinking about how that could be possible - homes, offices, shopping malls that are integrated with the environment in... - nat...
I love your vision of gas stations. How cool would it be to have local farmer’s markets and cafes at every corner One thing I loved seeing in Quebec City, Canada was restaurant staff stepping outside to get fresh greens or herbs from their little side... Awesome, thanks for pointing me to both exaptation and this Kauffman book. Man there's a lot in exaptation; I'm in a cafe right now that used to be a filling station/garage and I love the garage doors that they can open and close to bring in the outside world when the weather is... - lyssa...
I am the sister in this comment :) And without going into the specifics of the legislation, I'm not sure you captured my beef with the legislation, which was this: it isn't going to do what it promised to do, which namely to make housing density more possible (which in most cases...