Human Scale

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The concept of "human scale" is most known in urban design and architecture, but it provides a good framework to think about a lot of different aspects of our lives.

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Cities Should Handle Car Crashes Like They Handle Frat Houses (www.strongtowns.org)

submitted 3 months ago by rglullis to c/humanscale

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is this not common sense? We’ve been doing this for ages around here.

[–] rglullis 1 points 3 months ago

What is "here"? Because the majority of North America pretty much still believes that more policing == more safety.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep.

Cities build traffic-calming infrastructure, make streets non-contiguous to dis-incentivize thru-traffic,etc.

The strong towns effort has the same blinders as many other "well intentioned" groups - they see the world as intentionally designed rather than it's organic reality.

Towns and cities change more like organic systems - an issue arises and today's council/politicians/businesses/civil groups address it according to their goals and pressures.

Trying to plan beyond that assumes knowledge of tomorrow, which is naive at best, and flat-out hubris at the worst.