tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post110937366482272912..comments2023-10-10T03:39:50.342-05:00Comments on A Little Urbanity: Urban snob?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-1109734025975931322005-03-01T22:27:00.000-05:002005-03-01T22:27:00.000-05:00Keep doing exactly what you're doing.
Reedy Fork ...Keep doing exactly what you're doing.<br /><br />Reedy Fork represents a backwards way of developing neighborhoods. It's far too dependant on automobiles and like the neighborhoods built all the way back to the late 1940s the costs to modernize it will be staggering. Your reader will understand full-well what <I>we snobs</I> are talking about when he/she has to pay 5 bucks a gallon for gasoline and can no longer afford to drive or heat their home. It's just a shame that so many of us in the working class will be the ones who pay-- and suffer-- the most from poor planning.Billy Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16264147065000056960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-1109695015673025792005-03-01T11:36:00.000-05:002005-03-01T11:36:00.000-05:00Urban planning involves both an aesthetic componen...Urban planning involves both an aesthetic component and a public utility component. While the latter is at least partly empirical, the former is purely a value judgement. In making aesthetic judgements, we necessarily have to assume our "superior virtue and culture" allows us to make those judgments. The only other option is to fall into complete aesthetic relativism.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00476420107840920990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-1109692542813839492005-03-01T10:55:00.000-05:002005-03-01T10:55:00.000-05:00I'm not a snob. I, too, don't like bad planning an...I'm not a snob. I, too, don't like bad planning and development. However, I do think that Reedy Fork is an appropriate option for some people. A Reedy Fork or Adams Farm type development could help reduce sprawl, unfortunately they weren't done right. The mixed-use development THEORY is right, it's just not playing out the way it should. We said we wanted higher urban density to avoid sprawl, yet we are continuing to annex and sprawl at the same time we're pushing density in town. We CAN'T continue to have it both ways.<br /><br />JWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159479.post-1109647635416087072005-02-28T22:27:00.000-05:002005-02-28T22:27:00.000-05:00I’m not a snob, I just don’t like bad planning and...I’m not a snob, I just don’t like bad planning and development. Reedy Fork is as bad as it gets. It has nothing to do with architecture or the people who live there, they deserve more than they received for their money. The fault is with the Mayor and the developer.<br />The hard working middle-class people would have to pay less tax and have a more affordable home without the sprawl that cost people in Greensboro about twice as much for infrastructure as other cities equal in population.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com