Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind
by FooBarBizBazz on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:51AM
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Postwar sprawl is a huge problem, but it'd be good if prewar towns were saved.
You're going to get pushback if you try to say "everyone needs to live in the Big City". They don't. There are other options.
Because streetcar suburbs are fine. Villages are fine. Actual towns are fine.
What's bad is strip-mall sprawl. Highways, burbclaves, and office parks. None of that is worth saving.
And some of the new "denser" development misses the point. Rows of townhomes set up in a farm off the highway with no commercial center? That's dense but bad.
New condo complexes -- private compounds with pools and such -- that take up whole city blocks? Also dense, but bad. These represent the "enclosure" (with everything that entails) of urban space.
But "small towns"? Fine -- if they're actually towns, and not just strip-mall wastelands.
You're going to get pushback if you try to say "everyone needs to live in the Big City". They don't. There are other options.
Because streetcar suburbs are fine. Villages are fine. Actual towns are fine.
What's bad is strip-mall sprawl. Highways, burbclaves, and office parks. None of that is worth saving.
And some of the new "denser" development misses the point. Rows of townhomes set up in a farm off the highway with no commercial center? That's dense but bad.
New condo complexes -- private compounds with pools and such -- that take up whole city blocks? Also dense, but bad. These represent the "enclosure" (with everything that entails) of urban space.
But "small towns"? Fine -- if they're actually towns, and not just strip-mall wastelands.