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A Plan Is Floating Around Davos To Spend $90 Trillion Redesigning All The Cities...
Business Insider ^ | Jan. 21, 2015 | Jim Edwards

Posted on 01/22/2015 11:03:06 AM PST by Twotone

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To: Twotone

China already tried this with their empty cities.
Proof that being rich doesn’t make you smart.


41 posted on 01/22/2015 11:31:01 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I still have a copy of that around here somewhere. I’ve forgotten bits, might ought to dig it up.


42 posted on 01/22/2015 11:31:10 AM PST by Barkeep99
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To: Twotone; TEXOKIE; Whenifhow; Mr. Silverback; cripplecreek; NoLibZone; Lucky9teen; Pete; ...

UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


43 posted on 01/22/2015 11:32:50 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: demshateGod

Sadly, Houston was the last major city without zoning restrictions, but not any more.


44 posted on 01/22/2015 11:33:56 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: tanknetter
"the deeper you dig into the links, the more radical and authoritarian (collectivist/statist) they become."

No surprise there.

45 posted on 01/22/2015 11:38:03 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. unless if goDon't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Twotone

So, every human has to come up with $13,850? Please check my math.


46 posted on 01/22/2015 11:45:54 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: george76

First defense against this lunacy is arguing that the issue is not the absurdity of proving of “climate change” or “global warming” (sounds like “weather” to me) but the even greater absurdity of presuming that such is man-made without a preponderance of evidence. If it is not man made, then no justification for government involvement.

The second defense is U.S. sovereignty against such ludicrous ideas.

The third defense is state sovereignty to nullify if the U.S. decides unconstitutionally to go along with these absurdities.


47 posted on 01/22/2015 11:47:54 AM PST by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: Twotone

The WSJ has an article about a poll that says that young Millennials overwhelmingly dream of a house in the suburbs, not an urban village

It flies in the face of all the propaganda about urban villages and walkable communities. In the end, even the Millennials value their privacy and space over a short commute.


48 posted on 01/22/2015 11:49:47 AM PST by Eva
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To: Twotone

Puts me in mind of Nicolae Ceausescu’s scheme to force all rural residents into cities and level all rural villages in order to obtain a marginal increase in arable farmland.


49 posted on 01/22/2015 11:52:54 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: muir_redwoods
So, every human has to come up with $13,850? Please check my math.

You left out the government overrun on the project, so add a couple zeros.

50 posted on 01/22/2015 11:57:28 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Twotone

They can use their own money first.


51 posted on 01/22/2015 12:00:28 PM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Disambiguator

Arcosanti is a sort of pilot program, testing the various theories that go into a Arcology, but only in an experimental framework, and only from a societal perspective. They’re not really doing much if any work on how a megastructure arcology would work from a mechanical perspective.


52 posted on 01/22/2015 12:01:54 PM PST by Little Pig
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To: Twotone; Gamecock; F15Eagle; KC_Lion
This will create millions of jobs for fake city planners!


53 posted on 01/22/2015 12:04:05 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Pajamajan

Yeah, I think what surprised me was the breadth of the different groups, how they were all interconnected, and with the more “moderate” sites used as gateways to the more radical ones. Again, conceptually no surprise (I’m familiar with how the Democrats “Catalist” system interlinks partisan groups), but seeing how impressive it is, views first hand.


54 posted on 01/22/2015 12:14:02 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: Twotone

I have been saying this is their end game for years. They even admit to it in the American Community Survey when they tell you they ask all those personal questions to aid in their “community planning”. Why do they need to know how far you drive to work? So they can plan the high rise there, that’s why.
This planned community is the reason for the global warming lie, you must submit to save the planet.
You say you prefer to live in the country? Do you have a government permit to grow a certain food? Then you cannot go out into the countryside, it is completely restricted to keep it pristine.
These people are serious.


55 posted on 01/22/2015 12:35:37 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Twotone

In one of William W. Johnstone’s Out of the Asges books, this is what the so called president does. People got fed up and that is when Ben Raines and like mindd people formed the Tri States out west. If y’all have not read this series, do so.


56 posted on 01/22/2015 12:52:40 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Twotone
A $90 billion plan to redesign the cities is an exercise in runaway grandiosity and power tripping. People who think in such terms should be kept carefully locked away, as far as possible from the levers of power. That said, many large cities are clearly beyond the point of diminishing returns on the commitment to the automobile, the suburbs, and long commutes. So what to do?

The city-suburb balance has always involved a push-pull equation. The suburbs offer new homes, typically larger homes, bigger yards, etc. That is their legitimate competitive advantage. Call it the "pull."

The suburbs have also been havens to which the middle class escapes to avoid city taxes, corrupt government, crime, and crummy schools. These are the "push" factors. From the standpoint of urban policy, these are the most important things to address. If the cities could clean up their act, many more people would choose to skip the commute. A walkable, bikeable city neighborhood with schools, churches, jobs, restaurants, and light shopping within blocks is a nice place to live. I know. I live in one.

Perhaps the cities' greatest problem is that middle class flight has tilted municipal politics overwhelmingly into the control of public employee unions and client constituencies, largely the welfare class. This makes reform extraordinarily difficult. But not impossible. When suburbanites are routinely enduring 1-2 hour commutes each way -- and God forbid someone gets a flat tire on the beltway -- it begins to occur to an increasing number of people that it would be nice to get their lives back.

As always, I think that school reform/school choice/vouchers is perhaps the easiest place to seek a breakthrough. Young people move to the cities for their jobs. They enjoy the amenities and the convenience. Then come kids, and the schools force them into the private schooling/suburban flight dilemma. Meanwhile, the underclass kids rot in schools that are just patronage and kickback machines for the local democrat party -- and they know it. There is a constituency for serious reform on both ends of the spectrum, and it is good urban as well as educational policy.

A second useful point of attack is subsidies for urban sprawl, in the form of subsidized extension of transportation and utility infrastructure. If suburban development had to pay the full marginal costs, the economics would be very different. And if close-in communities can muster the political strength to block new arterial roads that degrade their older, "in the way" neighborhoods, the pressures on suburban commutes mount rapidly.

I live in one of those neighborhoods that suburbanites often think is "in the way," and the fact is, road expansion is destructive. It is my property values and my quality of life that the roadbuilding lobby is quite happy to destroy. I tend to think people should live closer to their jobs, whether the job is downtown or on the Dulles corridor. I am certainly not willing to sacrifice the tree plats, front yards, and local parks of urban neighborhoods in order to turn pleasant streets into commuter raceways.

Last but not least, exclusionary zoning and occupancy regulations in the suburbs need to be addressed, The cities should not be treated as the default dumping grounds for the poor. The poor need to live reasonably close to job centers if we expect them to work, and excessive concentration of the welfare class leads to disastrous results. Dispersion is the key. This does not mean that a multi-family housing unit needs to be placed on every cul-de-sac, but suburban planners need to accept their fair share of apartments, duplexes, boarding houses, etc. Dispersion is the key to reintegrating the underclass into American society.

The immediate deal-breaking problem, of course, is that bad policy since the 1960's has produced a viciously dysfunctional, drug addicted, heavily criminal element in the underclass. No one, including most of the residents of poor, inner city neighborhoods, wants these people anywhere near them. But they are there, and permanent quarantine is not a good solution. But I have to head to the airport. I will yield the floor for discussions of remedies.

57 posted on 01/22/2015 12:59:25 PM PST by sphinx
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To: MeshugeMikey

... 90 trillion dollars out of thin air...

That is the real objective


58 posted on 01/22/2015 1:03:26 PM PST by Selene
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To: Twotone

Algore wants you to give up your small town and suburban life to live like a sardine in gargantuan mega-cities.

So the sheeple can be more easily controlled. Fighting mythical climate change has nothing to do with it - that’s simply an excuse to advance soft lifestyle despotism.


59 posted on 01/22/2015 1:06:40 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The Khmer Rouge emptied their cities.

Algore wants to empty the countryside and the suburbs.


60 posted on 01/22/2015 1:08:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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