i can only get behind this meme if the apartments have fantastic sound deadening, because sharing walls with strangers is fucking awful
I live in a building that was new in 2021. I have never heard any of my neighbors. Modern building materials and techniques go a long way.
That’s wild, I feel like all the new build condos near me are paper thin walls but granite countertops so it can be sold as “luxury”
I think it depends a lot on whether you’re in a 5-over-1 wooden frame thing or a bigger concrete tower. The wooden buildings I’ve been in all have seemed passable to pretty bad at noise but the concrete ones have always been great, even the old run-down 1950s ones I’ve lived in (mold was awful in that 1950s one, but the noise was never an issue).
Unfortunately in america theyd also pave all the nature for parking lots
That’s like, actually a beautiful view though. The actual view is more like:
i think that reactionary suburb brain is almost a kind of stockholm syndrome. literally, for all of history the overwhelming majority of people have always congregated in walkable units.
suburbs were created as a corporate racist policy a vast number of people simply had the most access to, not because there was a fair and weighed decision on everyone’s part. and following that it’s sunk cost & aversion to change. like literally all the nascent suburbanites came from apartments, tenements, and public projects, there wasn’t some groundswell of people demanding, against every civilizational instinct to spread themselves out in isolation that corporate demands “met”, it’s that the availability of newly-built properties the tenant would eventually own shifted almost entirely to suburban development—and lets not forget that early suburbs were much, much better served before neoliberalism began cannibalizing it, you couldn’t very well get all the whites out of the city & into food deserts, they provided all the amenities and created all these suburban municipalities so suburbanites could pretend they still lived in cities, simply with more privacy, segregation, and automobiles.
tldr, if corporate greed hadn’t created suburban sprawl as a product, we wouldn’t even have people defending it, but they also created a constituency of people whose only capital is tied up in the suburban ponzi scheme who are now vociferous defenders of it
Live in Ireland, can confirm. Usually they’ll put parks around and plant trees in holes in the concrete. I recently went back to my parents place and saw a lot of the development nearby - just hundreds of houses ages away from the town. I think I maybe saw a couple of vertical duplexes, that’s the closest to apartments it got. No commercial zoning in sight, guaranteeing most people will drive every time they need to buy milk or whatever. Big shame.
You save nature by bulldozing vast areas of land to build ze Industrie und Autobahn???Deutschland has had 0 bears for the last 150 years, mind you!
I hate this picture because I should be allowed to ride my bicycle inside the store!
Now add in the fact that less dense development means we need to build more infrastructure, thus making maintanence and upgrades more difficult and resource demanding resulting in worse service for all.
It’s not just a question of space (on the road) but of space in general. I fucking hate cars.
