“entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals”
This isn’t new, and it’s basic tenent of today’s SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST/GREEN Eco-Moron, to help stop the mythical ‘Global Warming’.
Bulldoze the old neighborhoods, and FORCE people in to Higher Density Housing (Think a Cabrini Green-style Soviet Housing Block), where it becomes easier to ‘provide services’, and lowers the amount of Carbon release caused by commuting.
(ie., It’s easier to CONTROL YOU.)
Here is an example of the leftist propoganda regarding this, from a website called “Green Playbook”:
“Compact and mixed-use neighborhood design is essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In many places, overcoming public perception of negative implications of density is the most critical aspect of supporting green neighborhoods. To do so, it helps to highlight the benefits and share supporting statistics and concrete examples.
What is Mixed Use?
Mixing uses means allowing shops, services, amenities, jobs and homes to be located within easy reach of one another, often on the same parcel and in the same building.
Benefits:
* Community building: The opposite of single-use zoning, it helps minimize the need for automobile travel and creates a more vibrant community.
* Energy use: Mixed-use areas are excellent opportunities for district energy systems (where a central plant supplies heating and cooling to groups of buildings). Businesses and residences tend to need these services at different times, which maximizes efficiency of the systems and making for an attractive business case in many instances.
Conisiderations:
* Business impacts: To smooth the transition of a neighborhood from single-use to mixed-use, local government may need to manage business impacts on residential areas by limiting hours when noisy activities can occur, controlling access to parking, or other measures.
* Affordable housing: To maximize reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, planners should evaluate whether people who work within walking distance or good transit destinations will be able to afford the housing that will be built. If not, it’s worth exploring whether incentives, regulation changes, or other measures would support an optimum match.”
Obama is following the Radical Socialist/Enviro-Nazi playbook, to a tee.
Obama is following the Radical Socialist/Enviro-Nazi playbook, to a tee.Obama wants America to be like Continental Europe. It's not radical per se, it's *globalist*. There's a pretty broad consensus for this type of social change across the political spectrum(including pubbies, but they won't tell you that). Planners have been advocating it since the 70's.
It's going to be interesting to see what America looks like in 30 years.
Giant drug infested roach motel projects