| ▲ | cyberax 3 days ago |
| Why not go into even more past eras? Urbanism from the era of bunk beds in flophouses is the future, after all. |
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| ▲ | Mr-Frog 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I unironically agree with this. 100 years ago, Skid Row and Bunker Hill in Los Angeles were full of SROs, boarding houses and long-term hotels. The people who lived there didn't disappear, they're just all sleeping in the street now. |
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| ▲ | Tade0 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I guess you never had the misfortune of sleeping in a flophouse to say something like that. One time I had this project in Switzerland and my co-worker, who also travelled there, figured he'd save money if he rented a bunk bed in illegal (due to density) quarters. Terrible experience, which got him fired eventually because he quickly lost steam due to having to share a tiny room with three other people. I on the other hand moistened every Swiss Frank banknote with tears, but splurged thrice the amount on a proper room and survived until the end of my involvement in that project. | | |
| ▲ | yesfitz 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The person you're responding to suggested Single Room Occupancies, flophouses, etc. are a better alternative to sleeping rough (on the street). You suggested that flophouses are worse than a proper room. Both of these things can be true. | |
| ▲ | pyfon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | As an aside you can see why it is hard/impossible for a homeless person to pull bootstraps when a successful person can't keep their job living not-even-homeless. |
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| ▲ | tmnvdb 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The current American urbanism is from the past! The assumption that other urbanisms somehow represent a blast from the past, while 70 year old American car-centric urbanism embodies the eternal modern 'now,' simply doesn't hold up to scrutiny. There are numerous contemporary urbanisms, and newer approaches increasingly tend to be far less car-centric. |
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| ▲ | cyberax 3 days ago | parent [-] | | The thing is, the 70-era anti-urbanism made the US the leading country. The "modern" urbanism (flophouses, shoebox-sized apartments, 15-minute don-you-dare-to-walk-out neighborhoods) is leading only to decay of the country. Evidence: it absolutely helped to elect Trump. | | |
| ▲ | tmnvdb 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Wild assertions with another wild assertion as 'evidence' |
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