A heuristic for how freedom-friendly your urbanism aesthetic is:

If you draw an image of a city with your urbanism aesthetic, and then replace a random building with a McDonalds, how much worse does it become?

Lunarpunk clearly beats solarpunk on this dimension.

The main vein of solar punk aesthetic is definitely tracking the worst parts of high modernism.

There’s a completely different version of it that’s more about an ethos of grid independence and could totally accommodate a bunch of different looks.

That is one branch of solarpunk art, but I prefer this interpretation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U

It's also more resilient to the McDonalds test (although not perfectly so)

I hope the Dear Alice style is what people think of as solarpunk becomes more mainstream, though I think it's unlikely

Similar to https://warpcast.com/devon/0xaa0d1d9a or did you have some third thing in mind?

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Devon’s point about the aerial vs human perspective is the direction I’m going for sure. 

Solarpunk as an idea needs to confront the disorder and discord of daily life. 

There are an endless amount of aesthetics that’ll spill out of that that’ll be McDonald’s resistant.