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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Thank you, Charlatan, for clarifying my a-little-too-pithy statement. This was what I was implying. The problem with our cities is that we don't have a sensible setup: we don't live, work, shop, and play in the same immediate area. Could you imagine not requiring a vehicle of any sort to do all of these in your typical week? No? Well, how do you think we got by for the past several thousand years? I know societies have changed based on necessity, but don't you think we have new necessities? We are killing ourselves with pollution. Our communities are fragmented as apathetic individualism runs rampant. I could give you a laundry list of problems that would at least in part be alleviated if we rethink our cities in structure alone.
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I live, work, and play in a 2 square mile area. I walk most of the time, but since the public transportation infrastructure exists, I use that as well. The benefit of living in a major metroplitan. I learned in Singapore that I didn't need to live like I did growing up in the San Fernando Valley of California. I drove or was driven everywhere.
I have to buy new shoes every year and even have my dress shoes for work resoled and reheeled every other year, that's how much walking I do.
Most of Manhattan is not tall skyscrapers, the dwelling are mostly not highrises but 4-5 floor walkups. They have their own challenges as well, such as bringing up groceries.
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