Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S...
by rickydroll on Thursday March 14, 2024 @01:58PM
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> Physical and mental health is better out of the city than in it.
For some people.
I'm one of those out-of-the-city-is-better people. However, I would never try to force it on anyone as it would make them miserable and ruin the country for people who want to be there. Sadly, it is difficult to keep city lights in the city.
Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S...
by m_fayer on Thursday March 14, 2024 @02:45PM
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I wrote medium-to-high density, which means anything between city and "walkable town with a core". This doesn't preclude detached homes. It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in terms of the effects it has on the most people's mental health.
Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S...
by rickydroll on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:51PM
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ah, I understand. I've lived in both city and "walkable town with a core. I now live 2 miles outside of a New England mill city. The value of each place has been for what I can reach, not the place itself.
Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S...
by lelanthran on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:02AM
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> It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in terms of the effects it has on the most people's mental health.
Come on now: "Surburbia has more negative effects of people's mental health than high-density living" sounds like both pure conjecture and wishful thinking on your part.
Were there any measurements actually done? What are you basing this assertion on?
Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S...
by Kbelicius on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:16AM
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Makes sense. A quick search shows that there is research on this subject and results seem to agree with GP.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230529/Study-shows-link-...
Physical and mental health is better out of the city than in it.
And cultural health is purely subjective: what on earth makes you think that what you consider good for culture is the same as what everyone else considers good culture.
This is what I meant by attempting to enforce your moral mores on everyone else.
> Concentrating people in medium-to-high density housing makes it easier to achieve our decarbonization goals
Well that's not the problem being discussed here, is it?
We're talking about how to make certain centers more affordable wrt housing.
Removing need is a good first step, as that lets people who want to live elsewhere, live elsewhere.