kitkat

look at my cat in the link below:

im gay


alyaza
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NireBryce
@NireBryce

the suburbs aren't just there for [that specific suburban kind of] racism reasons, "developments" are the modern frontier town, "cheap" land made into planned towns, damn the wildlife and terraform everywhere into Cleveland, Ohio. it's still a colonization and extraction project[, same as the last 400 years]


kitkat
@kitkat

my city recently put up a 45 minute presentation about how they need to find the capacity for a 40% population increase by 2051, thanks to an edict from the provincial government.

they had a handy set of scenarios showing how much land we'd need to steal from our neighbouring townships to reach that goal, with different ratios of greenfield development and in-town intensification.

there wasn't a single case where we could get away with leaving the borders as-is and still have room for the extra schools and places of employment. meanwhile, doug ford is screaming about the scourge of fourplexes! the sprawl must continue


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in reply to @alyaza's post:

yeah it’s literally the opposite of even what happened in the US pre-WW2. it’s so ironic that in a country obsessed with the free market we have ended up with the least economically viable housing layout.

it reminds me of nothing so much as bacterial colonies spreading out on an agar plate, and is that such a bad analogy? the extreme emphasis in Christian (-derived) social organization is on the nuclear family and the godlike solitude of the paterfamilias—a very small unit, replicated as uniformly as possible across the landscape.

Early 20th century streetcar suburbs were mostly a good thing, as their development pattern was entirely based on public transit corridors and they encouraged local business districts clustered around the stops, but nearly everything built in the postwar freeway era was basically terrible

in reply to @kitkat's post:

not only did he get a majority, but he increased his majority in 2022 despite his blundering covid response resulting in the deaths of huge swaths of the population of long-term care residents