Literally every city used to be an ox path a well and a couple of farmhouses.
and that's a respectable point of origin as opposed to someone literally buying a cornfield and saying "here's where we'll build the 2M SF shopping mall".
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The West Coast is full of examples. Downtown Bellevue is the most notable in my area...horse farms and blackberry patches in 1950, sprawly suburban business crap in 1975, and increasingly a cohesive urban Downtown today.
evanston is literally how this whole tangent started.
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
this whole tangent started when i said america's metro areas would be billions of times better today if we had spent the past 70 years building more evanstons instead of schaumburgs.
and i still 100% stand by that statement.
we. fucked. up.
royally.
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and that's a respectable point of origin as opposed to someone literally buying a cornfield and saying "here's where we'll build the 2M SF shopping mall".
Yeah for sure, nobody in history has ever arbitrarily founded cities before! This is truly unprecedented !
^ it's not about whether cities we're founded arbitrarily or not, it's about whether they were built well or craptacularly.
it's no coincidence that once absolutely everything in urban planning and design became car! CAR! CAR! that our built environments started monumentally sucking.
we fucked up.
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