Thread by @viziandrei

A (short) Thread on #Urbanism

Premise:

#TaditionalUrbanism is far more sustainable, more graceful, cheaper, and encourages a more ethical and ecological way of living than #ModernUrbanism.

The return to traditional architecture and settlement patterns is an overwhelming necessity – yet we are incentivized to focus on cosmetic solutions. We think we need veganism, we think we need “green” skyscrapers, we think we need “green” fuel.

Nonsense.

We don’t need #veganism; we need to re-encourage local, small scale and ecologically-sensitive farming. It’s not about changing your diet; it’s about changing – going back to – the way we (used to) generate food.

#Veganism will merely encourage more ultra-processed food on a global level, thus making our large corporations happier, while the planet will remain similarly or insignificantly less polluted yet humans increasingly sicker.

We don’t need “green” skyscrapers; we need traditional houses that merely need local, sustainable, cheap materials in order to be built and supported.

We don’t need more “green” fuel; we need to re-build and re-organize our cities in such a way that we don’t need that much fuel to support our buildings, means of transportation, streets, etc.

Again: Traditional urbanism is far more sustainable, more graceful, cheaper, and encourages a more ethical and ecological way of living than modern urbanism. To discourage traditional urbanism is to reject millennial technical experience and knowledge.

References:

@wrathofgnon
@normonics
@Mangan150
Léon Krier