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.

ya honestly i’m a big fan of tokyo urbanism. allowing for lots of tiny restaurants, bars and shops vertically creates a huge diversity of experiences. i love the zakkyo buildings and yokochō alleyways

ya honestly i’m a big fan of tokyo urbanism. allowing for lots of tiny restaurants, bars and shops vertically creates a huge diversity of experiences. i love the zakkyo buildings and yokochō alleyways

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/why-tokyo-works

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