It’s the heist of the century what the car industry did to our cities. They got us to root for having parking space and ability to house souless planet destroying pieces of metal on the streets OVER having a walkable city
And now people’s whole indentity revolves around **having a car** and being able to drive it endlessly wherever around the world, while even it’s emissions are making many cities around the world less livable.
Also when discussing this online or irl I’ve noticed people who have driving around as their identity, think very highly of their view on society being the correct one. Mostly people who’ve moved from the countryside to a big city and don’t understand how cities work for a lot of people at the same time, not only their reference group.
Cities are made for people, cars are only supposed to get us to the city. Walk, use the bus, get on the tram do something with your feet.
If you go to southeast Helsinki, there’s an interesting vestige of this plan that was actually implemented. Talking about Laajasalontie, constructed in the 1960s and connecting the island of Laajasalo to mainland — a hilariously oversized ([aerial photo](https://api.hel.fi/kerrokantasi/media/images/2017/01/ilmakuva_laajasalo_pohjoinen.jpg)) mini-expressway with interchanges.
It’s now being converted into an “urban boulevard” as the city of Helsinki likes to call them.
Oh god, what is that website formatting? Completely unreadable.
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It’s the heist of the century what the car industry did to our cities. They got us to root for having parking space and ability to house souless planet destroying pieces of metal on the streets OVER having a walkable city
And now people’s whole indentity revolves around **having a car** and being able to drive it endlessly wherever around the world, while even it’s emissions are making many cities around the world less livable.
Also when discussing this online or irl I’ve noticed people who have driving around as their identity, think very highly of their view on society being the correct one. Mostly people who’ve moved from the countryside to a big city and don’t understand how cities work for a lot of people at the same time, not only their reference group.
Cities are made for people, cars are only supposed to get us to the city. Walk, use the bus, get on the tram do something with your feet.
If you go to southeast Helsinki, there’s an interesting vestige of this plan that was actually implemented. Talking about Laajasalontie, constructed in the 1960s and connecting the island of Laajasalo to mainland — a hilariously oversized ([aerial photo](https://api.hel.fi/kerrokantasi/media/images/2017/01/ilmakuva_laajasalo_pohjoinen.jpg)) mini-expressway with interchanges.
It’s now being converted into an “urban boulevard” as the city of Helsinki likes to call them.
Oh god, what is that website formatting? Completely unreadable.
I have always loved these. Visually.
https://youtu.be/D5-6dM1ByuM?t=93 veins of big cities.
(btw, if you have not seen Samsara i advice check it out, gorgeous. The clip has NSFW material)
“I don’t know where to turn, they all look so tempting. * Goes off-line to drive wrong direction. *
I’m just marvelling at how that article was executed on the website. Someone put work and care into it.
makes me think of cities skylines