https://www.startribune.com/katherine-k ... 569364112/
Op-ed on new urbanists and their goal to densify our cities. With recent lessons learned-Re-pandemics, this might not be such a good idea.
>>>"The holy grail for the Met Council’s urban planners, and their allies at the Minneapolis City Council, is “densification.” They seek to engineer a world in which we increasingly abandon our single-family homes for stack-and-pack, multifamily apartments, and our private automobiles for jam packed mass transit."<<<
Urban Density in a Time of Plague
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Re: Urban Density in a Time of Plague
Yes, they need to rethink that.Spock wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:32 amhttps://www.startribune.com/katherine-k ... 569364112/
Op-ed on new urbanists and their goal to densify our cities. With recent lessons learned-Re-pandemics, this might not be such a good idea.
>>>"The holy grail for the Met Council’s urban planners, and their allies at the Minneapolis City Council, is “densification.” They seek to engineer a world in which we increasingly abandon our single-family homes for stack-and-pack, multifamily apartments, and our private automobiles for jam packed mass transit."<<<
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.