y/n: suburbs make people pouty
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
all the recent stuff abt zoning aside the big argument here is between people who think that increasing density leads to vastly more efficient and sustainable use of resources and people who get hurt when that's said in a zingy way
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
but this thread doesn't even read like the suburb defenders are disagreeing wrt denisty being more efficient and sustainable
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
like jjusten say's its just zings circling around each other at this point
Yeah I'm not being sensitive or pouty dude, I am suggesting that terrible argumentation and logic is pretty transparent when it's repeated 8 million times over in a thread.
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I am in favor of increasing urban dentistry
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
well lets clear some stuff up
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
people who think that increasing density leads to vastly more efficient and sustainable use of resources
Regardless of zings, this hasn't really proved true over the course of history.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
the problem isn't that iatee is wrong, its more that he goes about getting his point across in a really condescending way sometimes and i think that gets peoples dander up and they want to argue with him just because. i feel like at least 90% of the people itt agree that density is probably the most efficient and sustainable way forward, its more just arguing wrt to getting there.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
why do you even need to argue with me if you agree with me?
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Same reason I used to tutor people in formal logic I guess
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
for the record, i'm not arguing with you right now, i'm just pointing out where the shitstorms sort of start to spiral out of control. we can agree with your main thesis, but disagree with your supporting points.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
voluntary human extinction is the only way
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
w/r/t subsidization/zoning upthread -- The zoning stuff is really a separate discussion I think that has nothing to do with the suburbs and nothing to do with disputes over higher density. The subsidization of suburbs was a much more direct thing over a long span of time. Mainly it came with homeownership incentives and various construction and tax incentives etc. But people didn't move to the suburbs because they were subsidized! The suburbs were subsidized because the people moving there were an important political force that politicians wanted to cultivate. The thing is really that suburbanization as a trend mainly reversed [or at least transformed] by the late 80s at the latest (with certain sprawl-exceptions in the sunbelt, which was a sort of different thing, and also has now collapsed). So the arguments about the problems with suburbanization all actually are sort of inescapable now, and I don't think there's even real disagreement about them?
― s.clover, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think some people do disagree with me about the new hampshire plan
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that or population control, yeah.
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
max: in new hampshire will all our food be grown on rooftop gardens or something? or will ppl have to commute to ohio or whatever to raise cows?
― s.clover, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
new hampshire is surrounded by amazing fertile land! and anyway were talking brooklyn density in NH, so theres plenty of room for community gardens, parks, even rooftop gardens
and there will be no cows in the united states of new hampshire. if there are they will be very expensive.
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
also new hampshire winters are kinda brutal. maybe we can build a dome over it or something?
no cows sounds like a dealbreaker, tbh.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
unless you plan on making all yr united states of new hampshire food in labs, there is no way you're going to have enough rooftop gardens to grow even enough grain for yr country
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
america doesn't have or need very many farmers ftr
― iatee, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
we got really really good at making food a long time ago
well, to be honest, it doesnt actually have to be *in* NH, just a space the size of NH. we can vote on where the city limits will be.
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
no you misunderstand jon -- most of the food will come in from the farmland that rings new hampshire, where all the teenagers will be sent to farm
as for the cows, unfortunately, they are also a dealbreaker in terms of the continued survival of human life on this planet
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - ok, i see now
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
That's why I'm eating them as fast as I can.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
beef is kind of the biggest problem in the farming chain, yes
― mh, Thursday, 15 March 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
beef is a big problem in hip-hop I'll grant.
― s.clover, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
hardsonned beef is more sustainable
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
re: tearing down brownstones, i just read this:
http://seattletransitblog.com/2012/03/14/we-need-old-buildings/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seattletransitblog%2Frss+%28Seattle+Transit+Blog%29
― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know that much about seattle's downtown and I imagine I'd prob agree w/ that author's definition of 'old' and 'heritage' but at the same time it doesn't escape the problem that you have to draw a fairly arbitrary line in the sand somewhere with those words.
― iatee, Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Increasing unit size does not seem to be a particularly pressing problem in NYC!
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'll tell you where increasing unit size *is* a pressing problem....
― s.clover, Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
my fly zipper?
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp The examples he shows (and are argued over in the comment section) aren't in Downtown proper, but in the historic Pioneer Square neighborhood (Seattle's oldest) and in the International District, both south of downtown. Most of the old buildings in Downtown itself were torn down and replaced with skyscrapers or other modern architecture decades ago. But part of his point, like Max et al were expounding itt earlier in regards to NYC, is that there are plenty of places for infill that don't require tearing down these type of buildings, even within spitting distance of Downtown Seattle.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
the area between Denny and, like, Olive? is really calling out for a lot of parking lot replacement.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 15 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I imagine it's actually probably inevitable there?
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Denny Triangle is filling with high-rises even as we speak.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
my Seattle recon is a little out of date
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that place was all surface parking and other garbage for a long time. Still a few lots left, but their days are numbered.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
amazon's putting up 3 mil sq/ft of office space in just 3 of those blocks. which is a hell of a lot of office space
― toandos, Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it makes a good contrast w/ apple's horrible new headquarters: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/how-amazon-got-urban-campus-right/1485/
― iatee, Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/shiller-housing-chance-bottom-suburban-prices-may-not-161914444.html?l=1
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
let us pray
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350432677038184.html
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Sugrue is a p. great historian. excited to see that he's doing a book on real estate/housing specifically. it's been an underlying theme in his work from the start (& of course he has the whole collection on suburbs he edited).
― s.clover, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350432677038184.html― iatee, Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't see an argument against mass home-ownership in this article though, all I see is the already exhausted point that home ownership shouldn't be a get-rich scheme.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
it's an argument against ease-of-homeownership, which is an argument against mass home-ownership as we have known it
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't see any opinion/advocacy in the article at all? (except for the subtitle, which sugrue may well not have written). and yeah, i didn't see points either, really, just some really nice, well researched and summarized history of (a slice of) the troubled story of suburbanization and federal housing policy.
― s.clover, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link