NEWS: My City is Better Than Yours, Fuckheads!

bean said:

Die.

dingoes8 said:
I'm sure San Francisco is awesome and all, but this seems like one of those times where someone has a conclusion in mind, such as creative/gay people=better city, then builds data around it to support it. But the openness to other types of people seems like more of an effect of the prosperity than the cause. So many millions of factors go into a city, I think it's too simplistic to narrow it down to one or two factors. Most of the richest cities are also located on bodies of water, which brought in trade, and towards the coasts, which brought in foreigners. It'd be impossible to boil it down to exactly why one place developed a certain way while another developed differently.

Subrosa said:

Well, after the Drew Carey song, how can you not?

tgulag said:
Personally, from a historical perspective, I never understood why San Francisco continues to exist. SF has to be one of the most dangerous places to build a city. It's bisected by TWO major fault lines, and I believe four minor faults. It has a history of frequent earthquakes; it had one the other day. Hell, the damn place was just about completely destroyed in 1906.

I'm just saying; Pompeii, Knossos, Anamurium; throw in New Orleans for kicks. Don't exist anymore, just tourist spots. Will SF rebuild again when the next big quake flattens it again? [I give it within 30 years; no doubt]

Of course, look at me; I gander at that huge, overdue, very glaciated, volcano in the PNW everyday. And I guess Tokyo, Kobe, the rest of Japan still maintains their metropolis status. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

And, by the way: My city's cooler than your's! Take a look at the weather reports.

Uncognitive said:

Of course, New York City's used urban planning since the early 19th Century, but I'm sure Portland pioneered something.

FearTheReaper said:

The fault line off of the coast of Washington is FAR more dangerous than any of the faults that run near SF. Yours goes up and down. Sf's goes sideways. Up and down is very, very bad.

FearTheReaper said:

Indeed. Urban planning was used to keep the blacks and whites seperate. A triumph. Keep on bragging.

AceT said:

Portland kind of pioneered that idea. Coincidentally they use Houston as an example of the exact opposite.

Uncognitive said:

Explain to me exactly how New York City's grid of avenues and streets keeps blacks and whites separate?

Uncognitive said:

Explain to me exactly how New York City's grid of avenues and streets keeps blacks and whites separate?

The construction of low overpasses on parkways were made purposely too low for buses to clear, and the veto of extension of the Long Island Rail Road to Jones Beach, were to prevent the poor and racial minorities (largely dependent on public transit) from accessing the beach while providing easy car access for wealthier, white groups.

The provision of numerous park amenities on the West Side highway below 125th Street (the southern boundary of Harlem) versus the provision of few (if any) amenities north of 125th Street. Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters, both of which sit in the northern part of Manhattan Island, are in the white neighborhood of Inwood, not Harlem.

reprobate said:

He means urban renewal, he's just not very well informed.

FearTheReaper said:

Uh huh.

Robert Moses

reprobate said:

He means urban renewal, he's just not very well informed.

FearTheReaper said:
You're right. Moses is not even considered when people bring up the city planning of New York

FearTheReaper said:

It's bad enough that you're always wrong when words come out of your mouth. How about you don't put your ignorant ramblings into my mouth?

Robert Moses and the Modern City: Slum Clearance and the Superblock Solution, opening on January 30, 2007 at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery will present for the first time the full scope of Moses's 1950s urban renewal program, which became a national model.

FearTheReaper said:
Actually, Uncognitive, I'm going to expand on this.

You have become one of those classic little bitches on the boards. I've seen your kind many times over my year + here. I wrote something that offended you. In this case I took on your spineless Democrats. And you basically, lost your shit. Now, where ever I go, there you are. I say black, you say white.

It has little to do with what I write at this point and more to do with you trying to win some battle that does not exist. Keep on at it.

I'm going to put you on ignore now. If only that would keep me from having to see your boring stories on the likes of Disney.