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Thread on cities. 1. A city has to have dense mixed-use neighborhoods that are based on apartment living and walkability for most uses, play work study. link.medium.com/AGXaMi1RHZ
2. What is not walkable must be bikable. Cars do not have priority in cities. Make less room for cars means more for people and even public transport.
3. It is easier to make public transport in cities where cars are not given a free pass. In pakistan the priority to cars has crowded out walkability and bicycles as well as public transport. WE HAVE SUBSIDIZED CARS THRU OUR HISTORY. link.medium.com/JsP4LIYRHZ
4. Unless cities go high large populations can only be accommodated in sprawls with cars pollution wasted commuting time and disease.
5. Unless cities go high, infrastructure will always be expensive
6. If we want millions of people to love on single family homes the only option is car dependent sprawl. And of course it is not possible then to include the poor. link.medium.com/IR7otc4RHZ
7. The only way is to prioritize flats and mixed use. Let houses and work be close by so people ask or bike.
8. In mixed use high rise design can happen to develop city skyline. Businesses can be innovative at every level form the small to the big
9. As Jane Jacobs says foot path then become the lifelines of cities to facilitate commerce and entrepreneurship.
10. In such cities egalitarianism and inclusion will force all to consider common infrastructure, common unity centers, leisure, libraries, playgrounds public spaces
11. Those who ask for developing character identity and nimbyism ( not in my backyard) are looking for giving preferences to personal preferences.
12. Cities are the engines of growth if governments deregulate and stop hoarding city capital —land. link.medium.com/IQlrj66RHZ
13 . Those who ask for cities w character as well as identity while preserving their privilege they are meeely looking to keep their preeminent position and exclusivity. Cities are to be shared by all and not only for preservation of privilege as in Pakistan. End
