I feel like nobody thinks about the logistics involved with these things.
Not the person you’re referring to, but I’ll take a crack at it
The one of the issues is a complete lack of suitable soil to grow all the stuff that’s in the diagram. Soil was stripped and compacted to create a parking lot.
You have to break up the pavement, haul it all out, and take it to a recycler or Landfill.
There is a lot of planning of where things go, how big they will be.
We have a pond so we have to design that
It also takes time for trees to grow to the size we want them
“It would have to be built” seems fairly obvious and I wouldn’t call that a logistical issue.
Ok so literally none of that is exceptionally difficult. I’m an architectural technologist and have worked on some pretty large projects as well as seen what my landscape architect friend gets up to. I know how this all works. What you’ve described is trivial in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, it will take time, no fucking shit. That is all the more reason to start now. Man, I wish there was a saying for that kinda stuff, probably something to do with trees I dunno.
Money. Nobody would ever foot the bill for this and even then, it would take a significant amount of overhead to keep it running. Also, you’re never going to convince people to use public transportation. That’s just a few things. My point is this is represented as a utopia but it could never exist. Not in the nations current state. The ideal is good in practice but it’s getting there that’s the issue.
Literally projects like this already exist. In my city we have so many streets that get converted into pedestrian spaces, parks that are well maintained by the city with all sorts of things(the biggest park even has an area for teaching kids how to ride a bicycle on the street), and the people love the public transport. I own a sportscar and it is almost never the best way to get around and that’s awesome. And before you get snippy about why I own it I’m going to a race track in two weeks which is a whole lot more fun than driving around doing errands that I could easily walk to.
Anyway, this is far from impossible. It’s actually astoundingly easy to do. It doesn’t require a utopia to put a fucking park in and building some mid-density communities.
We get it, you’re afraid of change and scared of a little effort. It’s ok but maybe don’t act like you know what you’re talking about when you have zero evidence to support your claims and are running entirely off feelings.
They have partially done this in Texas of all places. It’s quite popular. https://maps.app.goo.gl/48cARVS5rF9ZVFrx7
Every strip mall and big box store in America needs a few units of housing slapped on top of them.
This is an architect’s nightmare
How so? I don’t see anything here that’s particularly challenging to design around, no plants incorporated directly into buildings for instance.