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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
America needs better urbanism: walkable cities, high-speed rail connection, density, and ornamental architectural styles for both public buildings and residences. So much of the endemic problems of American society stem from the loneliness, lack of community, environmental harm and economic stress of maintaining a sprawling car-centric physical environment. America with more density and walkable streets could be a utopia in my opinion: Think about how much people love living in college towns where the basics of life are all walkable. Imagine if much of the county could be that human-sized? At the very least highway should not be built right down the middle of cities so that the cities we have today can redevelop in a manner that lets them thrive and makes them a safe and enjoyable place to live, including with children and families.
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MJC
@mjc716
an initiative to effect this kind of vision would take decades, would require legislative changes to break the power of special interest groups across the political spectrum, and would only “work” if paired with a complete re-imagining of the American social contract I agree tho
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JestemZero
@jestemzero
Decades is a short time frame in all honesty. And it is not very difficult, or costly, to implement. These changes are very local and have been implemented many times across the country. IT is easy to blame "special interests" and the greedy, etc. But it in fact takes sustained interested from the citizens to ensure it happens.
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MJC
@mjc716
changing 300 million (90+% of u.s. pop who don’t live in these communities) people’s way of life would be very costly and “decades” was probably too generous the special interests point was in regard to how it’s impossible to build public infra at scale anymore
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JestemZero
@jestemzero
300 million people do not want this. And I'm certain trying to force such a change on people goes nowhere. It gets accomplished at a small scale in places where people wish it for their own lives or where it becomes a necessity.
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