Visionaries often focus on the end goals, not the path. This might be the easy way to excite people, I guess. Talking about a path there sounds too much like actually having to put in effort.
I think I also have become quite cynical. Being confronted with these ideas made me aware of that in a startling way.
Re:The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
by JKCalhoun on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:17PM
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Me too. All I can conjure up is Fuller-worshipping hippies creating dome homes and communes. And it feels like: tried that. Next!
Maybe the second time it will actually work.
Re:The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
by clairity on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:44PM
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because of the moderate climate, california has a lot of flat roofs. i've long wondered why apartment builders here didn't just plop (and planners allowed) a single family home right on top with enough dirt to grow a lawn and a few plants (with parking put underground). it's the best of both worlds--apartments and single family homes (albeit above ground level) can co-exist everywhere. that'd be one such middle ground.
I agree with the sentiment though, just wonder if it would benefit from someone positing a middle-ground that would show a transitional approach. Perhaps some of the larger buildings (I'm thinking of the one with the fountain spilling down it) represent that.