American architecture is so Jew'd it's so sad. Let's post some cozy US architecture so we can dream about how we will rebuild our cities when we get the chance to knock down the (((modern shit and strip malls)))
I would invite everyone to check out Andrew Price's blog. He does good stuff about the need to reform zoning and deregulate land-use rules that make it illegal to build the sorts of comfy, walkable, fine-grained urbanism that we want.
I can't tell you how many indians and chinks I have pointed in the wrong direction at national parks when they ask for directions. They throw trash goddamn everywhere and it makes the parks terrible to visit.
Christian Carter
St. Augustine Florida has great Spanish architecture
Cle Elum / Roslyn is peak cozy. North Bend reporting in.
Cooper Murphy
I live near there and the Asians from the coast are making it unbearable. They move in big groups and smash into you without being polite at all. We have problems with beaners and Slavs too. Fuck everyone of you stay the fuck out
Brayden Walker
That's why we called it "La tierra florida" or "The flourished land"
A wide array of various land-use regulations make this sort of urbanism illegal to build (which is strange, because the stuff that does still exist is incredibly valuable and desirable). Just for starters, zoning that separates commercial and residential uses. Minimum lot sizes. Minimum unit sizes. Occupancy limits. Density restrictions. Setback requirements (that's a big one). Height caps. Architecture regulations. Building codes. Fire departments often block attempts to construct narrow streets (instead of buying smaller trucks). There are so many more. Federal mortgage subsidies make it difficult to get financing for the sort of small mixed-use buildings that humans have been building for thousands of years (i.e. a shop on the bottom and housing up top).
But if you're asking *why* all those regulations exist... it's hard to say. Part of it is that we're simply in an equilibrium where everything is oriented towards cars, and so rationally every business and voter always wants more parking and wide, fast streets. But collectively, the effect is to shatter our cities and make them shitty. Certainly single-family-zoning is a sneaky way to effectively ban poor people, and many homeowners benefit from the status quo.
Strong Towns is a little SJW, but they post some good stuff regularly on YouTube and their website youtube.com/watch?v=TcmzF8zn5FE
Kevin Adams
im former snoqualmie / northbend (as of 5 years ago). The kikes of king county made the costs of living almost unbearable. property taxes were 8x what mine are now in kittitas.
I didn't know there were American larp towns besides Solvang. >check wikipedia >leavenworth was larp'd after some people visited Solvang Today I Learned.
It’s weird looking back to when I was a kid and thinking about how I used to consider the Amish kooky eccentrics. Now I envy them. Am I too old to join the Amish at 25?
I yearn for the tradlife. They’re not quite as aesthetic as Natsoc germany but it’s as close as you’ll get in these degenerate times.
Haystack rock at Cannon Beach. I live very close. Best time of year to visit is in winter--practically deserted.
Oregon is the most livable and beautiful state in the union outside of Portland, which is a commie hell hole.
Jason Clark
>"american architecture is so Jew'd" >proceeds to support car culture that led to the destruction of traditional cities in favour of fugly high-rises and mcmansions, because "hurr transit is full of niggers durr" k
Leo Moore
Public transit sucks and his a sink of time and money. The ideal city you're talking about also leads to Hong Kong slumrise tier population density which is anything but traditional.