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  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    An interesting description of how cars cause alienation and atomization.

    This insular and selfish thinking is a direct result of the livability—or lack thereof—of a street, especially one with heavy traffic volumes. Residents have little sense of joy and contentment in the space outside where they live. The front of the house is seen as where they leave the comfort of their home and enter the hostility of the world around them. Why bother taking care of it if they don’t spend time there? As it turns out, aside from having feelings of belonging and pride for our immediate surroundings, the resulting lack of socialization has even greater impacts on the emotional and physical health of residents.

  • Ton@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing, being from the city where the pictures in that article have been taken (Delft), I feel incredibly privileged to have been born and raised there.

    In my younger years, I could not get enough from huge cities, and I still can’t. However, now that I’m getting a bit older I feel so privileged to live in an environment where cars are no longer first thought when designing an area.

  • walnutwalrus@lemmy.world
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    In 1974, nearly a third of Americans reported spending time with their neighbors at least twice a week. Forty years later, that number had been cut in half. Over the same period of time, the number of Americans reporting zero interactions with their neighbors has grown from 20% to almost 35%.

    these are probably not due to cars but income or work conditions which leave less leisure for some people

    • nbafantest@lemmy.world
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      The modern development pattern:

      People get in their car in their garage, open the garage door, and go to work.

      When they come home from work, they drive directly into their garage and shut the door.

      Modern suburbs are desolate empty places. You simply don’t see any one or have any interactions with them.