If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity

Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by its_ethan on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:29PM (#41110986)

And that's great for those places. But why do people feel compelled to make relatively new US suburbs more similar to old suburbs in Madrid? No one is trying to make suburbs in Madrid more like suburbs in Iowa - I'm voicing frustration that the reciprocal is not true.

This is part of a larger frustration where it feels like a very common thing that people in cities want to enforce their expectations and cultures onto rural places that already have their own way of being.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by pchristensen on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:00PM (#41111423)

Forcing places to be a certain way by law is like writing an essay without the letters 'D' and 'O'. Possible, but it's really tying your hands behind your back.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by oblio on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:14PM (#41113051)

"Their own of being" = putting a fist in everyone's mouth by <<forcing>> housing to be exactly the same type (single family detached house) and <<banning>> any other type of activity, even compatible ones like light commercial.

A sign of confidence, you know, the typical American fashion, would be to allow mixed zoning for compatible uses and see what happens, "invisible hand" and all.

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