>>943283Emphatically agree with every point he made. It's bothered me for a while. You see pictures of european cities, and you are overwhelmed by the desire to go there. Most want to vacation someplace like pic related. The notion doesn't enter their mind that we could design our cities and town to actually look like this, and everyday would be a vacation somewhere beautiful. We are so sold on needing a cheap 3000 sq foot house in the suburbs that we sell out our city and town and making life here an ugly shitstain upon the land and daily life miserable. You wake up in your giant plywood mcmansion surrounded by consumer goods you don't like or use, and you choke down a shitty piece of white toast and drive in heavy traffic for an hour to get to your shitty, dismal workplace surrounded by ugly parking lots and ugly warehouse-style buildings. Your kids come home and sit in your ugly plywood box and watch TV because anything fun is an hour drive away and the suburb sprawl is so ugly you have to force yourself to walk in it, so they don't do anything but watch the boob tube. And the parents wonder why the kids are stupid and fat and have no friends. We should have a separation, city and rural. Stop perverting the land into housing developments, stop letting the cities fall apart to warehouses and featureless cement walls of "facades". There is no reason we can't replicate beautiful architecture of europe right here. We could have venice or paris or amsterdam or london right in our backyard. Streets like this are beautiful. We could have flourishing market-lined streets and cute apartments above, central to everything and surrounded by beauty.
America has beautiful land. Making a messy, hideous urban sprawl of it and putting one-level stripmalls surrounded by vast parking lots and endless freeways, trash billowing off the sides of the roads into algaed ditches and drain pits, that's a waste of this natural beauty and of our lives spent in these spaces.
