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<blockquote data-quote="Enju" data-source="post: 75177" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I'd like to add, it's not just the suburbs, but nearly the entirety of America.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Most NEW American suburbs wind up looking like this hellscape below:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15174[/ATTACH]</p><p>No amenities nearby, as well as identical dystopian-looking homes.</p><p>While suburbs that I've lived in don't look 100% like this, and there is usually a variety in house designs. Lots of them lack any sense of culture and aesthetic. Their soul purpose is to be minimalist, and make profit.</p><p>The city is the same way. This was old Boston. The buildings had character, and reflected the culture of English settlers.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15180[/ATTACH]</p><p>Fast forward to today (I'll use Boston's City Hall as an example), the city is moving toward soulless looking buildings, even knocking down old historic buildings in replacement. You can now only visit a small, sectioned off part of the city to see the older buildings.</p><p></p><p>Back to the lack of amenities nearby, a lot of this can be chalked up to car-dependency. In European suburbs/urban areas, local markets are usually IN the community. In the US, you have to drive miles away to the biggest corporate-chain for your shopping. This isn't exclusive to suburbs either. This is how it is in urban and rural areas in America (excluding older cities like Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. which are still walkable). You'll have sidewalks that just randomly end like this since private owners are expected to build sidewalks:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15175[/ATTACH]</p><p>People are unable to go outside and enjoy their environment without loud cars and lack of parks nearby, or even being hit by cars because of the lack of walkable suburbs/cities.</p><p></p><p>Continuing on about driving miles to corporate chains, take a drive down a busy road in the US, and you'll come across something like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15181[/ATTACH]</p><p>(The highway in the back was on the cherry on top. If you wanted to get to that building in the background by walking, it'd quickly turn into a 5 mile walk instead of a less than half a mile walk since you have to get around the highway!)</p><p>There is a lack of small businesses thanks to big-corporations out competing everyone. But when you do run into a small business, they'll usually be in these shitty looking strip malls. Again, they're not meant to be aesthetically pleasing in the slightest. They're supposed to look minimalistic, and nearly identical to every other strip mall in America.</p><p></p><p>While I don't see this ever happening in America (largely due to the lack of culture there is in America. Thanks multiculturalism!), suburban and rural areas need to use European villages as examples and change their infrastructure/architecture to something like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]15182[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is Gruyères, Switzerland. Most European villages look somewhat similar, but everything is easily accessible by foot. It's aesthetically pleasing, and not filled with corporate chains everywhere the eye can see. You can leave this main street, and be surrounded by nature. While I suppose rural America is surrounded by nature, you still have to drive everywhere since supermarkets aren't always nearby</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enju, post: 75177, member: 17"] I'd like to add, it's not just the suburbs, but nearly the entirety of America. Most NEW American suburbs wind up looking like this hellscape below: [ATTACH type="full" width="542px" alt="1776539277683.png"]15174[/ATTACH] No amenities nearby, as well as identical dystopian-looking homes. While suburbs that I've lived in don't look 100% like this, and there is usually a variety in house designs. Lots of them lack any sense of culture and aesthetic. Their soul purpose is to be minimalist, and make profit. The city is the same way. This was old Boston. The buildings had character, and reflected the culture of English settlers. [ATTACH type="full" width="469px" alt="1776540063276.png"]15180[/ATTACH] Fast forward to today (I'll use Boston's City Hall as an example), the city is moving toward soulless looking buildings, even knocking down old historic buildings in replacement. You can now only visit a small, sectioned off part of the city to see the older buildings. Back to the lack of amenities nearby, a lot of this can be chalked up to car-dependency. In European suburbs/urban areas, local markets are usually IN the community. In the US, you have to drive miles away to the biggest corporate-chain for your shopping. This isn't exclusive to suburbs either. This is how it is in urban and rural areas in America (excluding older cities like Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. which are still walkable). You'll have sidewalks that just randomly end like this since private owners are expected to build sidewalks: [ATTACH type="full" width="314px" alt="1776539526350.png"]15175[/ATTACH] People are unable to go outside and enjoy their environment without loud cars and lack of parks nearby, or even being hit by cars because of the lack of walkable suburbs/cities. Continuing on about driving miles to corporate chains, take a drive down a busy road in the US, and you'll come across something like this: [ATTACH type="full" width="479px" alt="1776540638298.png"]15181[/ATTACH] (The highway in the back was on the cherry on top. If you wanted to get to that building in the background by walking, it'd quickly turn into a 5 mile walk instead of a less than half a mile walk since you have to get around the highway!) There is a lack of small businesses thanks to big-corporations out competing everyone. But when you do run into a small business, they'll usually be in these shitty looking strip malls. Again, they're not meant to be aesthetically pleasing in the slightest. They're supposed to look minimalistic, and nearly identical to every other strip mall in America. While I don't see this ever happening in America (largely due to the lack of culture there is in America. Thanks multiculturalism!), suburban and rural areas need to use European villages as examples and change their infrastructure/architecture to something like this: [ATTACH type="full" width="515px" alt="1776541087825.png"]15182[/ATTACH] This is Gruyères, Switzerland. Most European villages look somewhat similar, but everything is easily accessible by foot. It's aesthetically pleasing, and not filled with corporate chains everywhere the eye can see. You can leave this main street, and be surrounded by nature. While I suppose rural America is surrounded by nature, you still have to drive everywhere since supermarkets aren't always nearby [/QUOTE]
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