You don’t need to even travel. Compare downtown to Katy. Houston has plenty of nice parts with tons of nature, they just also have 50 square mile cookie cutter ranch house subdivisions.
I like urban centers even when they’re relatively devoid of nature. What I don’t like is when nature is pointlessly absent. A bunch of tall buildings providing living, working and recreational space efficiently to lots of people? Excellent. Asphalt to the horizon so that people can drive to Walmart and then drive to Applebee’s? Soul-crushing.
After going to Japan and seeing what is possible with proper city planning… Yes, the American parking lots really are one of the worst offenders when it comes to our infrastructure. They’re an incredible waste of space.
I hate when nature is absent. It’s not just urban centers. Large suburban parking lots with no trees are a kind of hell for me.
In the US, compare a city like Houston, TX to a city like Portland, OR. Seems like two different planets.
You don’t need to even travel. Compare downtown to Katy. Houston has plenty of nice parts with tons of nature, they just also have 50 square mile cookie cutter ranch house subdivisions.
And lots of highway… LOTS
Just one more lane and they’ll have enough room for rush hour traffic.
I like urban centers even when they’re relatively devoid of nature. What I don’t like is when nature is pointlessly absent. A bunch of tall buildings providing living, working and recreational space efficiently to lots of people? Excellent. Asphalt to the horizon so that people can drive to Walmart and then drive to Applebee’s? Soul-crushing.
bruh same. everytime i have to ride through suburbs im just like damn this is so depressing and ugly
I know it’s not quite nature, but in my neighborhood in SF there’s trees on every sidewalk and multiple parks within a 5 minute walk
I hate it when they remove nature and don’t even provide shade or evaporative cooling
Awww that’s so sad. Having to be in a parking lot without trees sounds like the worst hell on earth there possibly could ever be 😭
After going to Japan and seeing what is possible with proper city planning… Yes, the American parking lots really are one of the worst offenders when it comes to our infrastructure. They’re an incredible waste of space.
Truly a hell on earth