USA: still a developing country?
Earlier, I was examining this horrible and horrifying stretch of road while waiting for the bus, with ramshackle houses not too far away. It struck me as crazy that in a city as good as Portland, that there were still such bad spots. And then I decided it meant that the United States is still a developing country, not much better than the 3rd world countries it calls developing, because they can't build roads worth shit, and they can't keep their cities looking uniformly nice. The fact that there are so many living in poverty is another point against this country.
So I got to thinking, how would I design a city? Well, for one thing, I'd build roads that didn't need to be repaved every damn summer. I'd build roads like the Romans did, to last hundreds or thousands of years with minimal repairs. Not sure what else I'd do, but that much should be a given.
Cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org
So I got to thinking, how would I design a city? Well, for one thing, I'd build roads that didn't need to be repaved every damn summer. I'd build roads like the Romans did, to last hundreds or thousands of years with minimal repairs. Not sure what else I'd do, but that much should be a given.
Cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org