• ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    What are you talking about? Not a beautiful area and some are probably ads but built for walkability not cars only no idea what you are trying to say with this. China does have some areas with unnecessarily enlarged highways you could have posted instead.

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      I’m not american, so the design the fact that it was built around cars didn’t stick out to me, what did stick out was the insane amount of advertising and noise trying to sell you 100 versions of the same product. That’s why I don’t think the meme was very good.

      Sorry that we’re not all American. That area was built before cars were a thing otherwise you bet your ass there would be a huge fucking road there. That’s why it’s walkable. Also cities like that were designed specifically to stop revolutions after 1848. Another reason people like pedestrian zones in places like Europe is because you can make a shit ton of money off of real estate if you know the area is going to be designated a pedestrian zone before hand, and because it forces consumers to spend longer walking through commercial zones. In Europe walkability and anti car design usually only happens in fancy urban areas. The minute you live in a more rural area you’re completely fucked if you don’t have a car and public transport usually sucks ass outside of major cities. Or at least that’s the case where I live.

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        Sorry that we’re not all American. That area was built before cars were a thing otherwise you bet there would be a huge road there. That’s why it’s walkable.

        No

        Also cities like that were designed specifically to stop revolutions after 1848. Another reason people like pedestrian zones in places like Europe is because you can make a ton of money off of real estate if you know the area is going to be designated a pedestrian zone before hand, and because it forces consumers to spend longer walking through commercial zones.

        No

        In Europe walkability and anti car design usually only happens in fancy urban areas.

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        The minute you live in a more rural area you’re completely fucked if you don’t have a car and public transport usually sucks ass outside of major cities. Or at least that’s the case where I live.

        No

        The reason for walkability being better in Europe is the direct result of the 1973 oil crisis
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8

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          Most of the pedestrianisation that has been done in the city I live in happened over the last 10 years.

          The reasons for it were what I said. I campaigned a lot to various billionaires for more pedestrianisation and used the reasons I said.

          The city I lived in used to be insanely car centric. The first big pedestrianised zone happened before the oil crisis in 1971 and it mainly happened because they were building the subway they just kept it that way, that might of had something to do with the oil crisis idk.

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llSv_94zRM0

      • MidnightPocket [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Yes that’s the rural struggle certainly - the difference is that many “urban” zones in the US (and likely other parts of the western empire) are dominated by car infrastructure needlessly/maliciously.