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www.thedeletedscenes.com Wiener Me This What Do You Think You're Looking At? #261 
www.thedeletedscenes.com "Blight" And Entrepreneurship In Manassas, Virginia On developing the perception to separate the form of a place from what it contains I wrote a piece about the transformation of aging suburbs into immigrant communities, modern incarnations of the old Chinatowns or Little Italies. This feels to me like a really overlooked point that slips by all of the typical analyses.View quoted post on X
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They always talk about walking to THE grocery store, THE pediatrician, etc.
Many/most people don't want that. Instead they value CHOICE among many grocery stores and many pediatricians, all within a short and convenient drive. To say nothing of stopping off at their CHOICE of grocery stores on the way home from their CHOICE of pediatricians.
The libs are completely right in all of their insights about cars. It's not even an urban/rural thing, the walkable town is just the historically normative way people live.View quoted post on X
They offer no constructive suggestions, can't build nice places, don't know how to make density child-friendly, and won't address the elephant in the room, but they aren't wrong either.
