Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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One interesting concept is "the line" city, basically one ultra long building. No need for cars and you can travel from one end to the other via high speed metro. It's basically a city optimized for public transport and so that everyone's apartment has a beautifu view on unspoiled nature (well desert in this case haha)
@LarmyOfLone @ginerel
https://youtu.be/vyWaax07_ks
Ah well lol, thanks. Those are some good points. I'm more interested in a smaller concept and not in the desert. What I like is that in a smaller version every apartment could have a beautiful unobstructed view. You can't get that with more compact cities. And the infrastructure is kind of minimal - no junctions not just for transport but for water, cargo and power. You'd have to do the actual math at what scale this could make sense.
@LarmyOfLone
Yeh, the guy is pretty brutal about the whole project isn't he :-)
I agree a city "optimized for public transport and so that everyone’s apartment has a beautiful view on unspoiled nature" is very desirable.
Stuff like this: https://www.whispersandgiants.com/2024/01/16/preferable-future-habitats/
Those are beautiful images. But I think we also need more energy efficiency through shared (sound insulated) walls like a skyscraper or big apartment block. A line city would allow you to combine "living in nature" and just taking the stairs down and being in a park or walking between fields and into food forests, go cycling. And at the same time you get high urban density that is needed to accommodate all the people in an sustainable manner. Important would also be high ceilings (3-4m or 10-13 ft) so people don't feel like in a shitty box. Cheap food delivery or community run cafeterias. And you live among lots of people to meet and party with.
Another idea I had was to just put a big 500 unit apartment block in the middle of a large agricultural area / food forest. Not so efficient in transport, but everyone living there could work on the common necessities, maintain and build their own machinery and be truly self sufficient for food.
@LarmyOfLone
Big apartment blocks are less energy efficient, so I don't think they are the solution.
https://theconversation.com/cities-and-climate-change-why-low-rise-buildings-are-the-future-not-skyscrapers-170673