Urban Blight

[longknife]

We see it all around us and usually ignore it because it's so common place. Acres of paved parking lots – half or more of the spaces vacant. Hundreds of vacant store fronts yet they continue to build these monstrosities.

This article should be shared along with the dozens of pictures that should cause all of us to wake up. Can anything be done about it? It would take a whole lot of determination – and money – to even begin to break the cycle. This is typical of how they live andsave land for nature in Switzerland:

Read more of this article @ The Shape of Things to Come | Newgeography.com

 

[william the wie]

Good one and the asphalt creates more local heat.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

We see it all around us and usually ignore it because it's so common place. Acres of paved parking lots – half or more of the spaces vacant. Hundreds of vacant store fronts yet they continue to build these monstrosities.

This article should be shared along with the dozens of pictures that should cause all of us to wake up. Can anything be done about it? It would take a whole lot of determination – and money – to even begin to break the cycle. This is typical of how they live andsave land for nature in Switzerland:

Read more of this article @ The Shape of Things to Come | Newgeography.com

This is typical of how they live and save land for nature in Switzerland:

We're not in danger of running out of land in the US.

 

[flacaltenn]

We see it all around us and usually ignore it because it's so common place. Acres of paved parking lots – half or more of the spaces vacant. Hundreds of vacant store fronts yet they continue to build these monstrosities.

This article should be shared along with the dozens of pictures that should cause all of us to wake up. Can anything be done about it? It would take a whole lot of determination – and money – to even begin to break the cycle. This is typical of how they live andsave land for nature in Switzerland:

Read more of this article @ The Shape of Things to Come | Newgeography.com

Those pictures are actually SUB-urban blight. URBAN blight looks a lot different. Even tho it CONFORMS with the new leftist "urban planning" vision for how folks should live, it's still concrete and asphalt.. Those "malls" and dense commercial areas are not where folks live in the suburbs. In my area, there's virtually NO commercial biz for square miles of residential housing and small farming. Biz and industry is all concentrated in a few places. Which makes the "neighborhoods" much greener and recreation friendly. And in Tenn, when subdivisions go in, there are GENEROUS reservations for green space and wildlife corridors.

That Swiss picture is attractive because the TOWN is quaint, probably peaceful and very LOW density by "urban" standards. Not every quaint small town can thrive in this day..

I was afraid to read "the shape of things to come" because it's obvious where a lot of policy makers want things to go. Which generally means reducing options for how you want to live and raise families. And your closeness to nature and amount of land that is part of your home.