Welcome to /c/Urbanism! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/2915232

This is a space to explore and share ideas about how we shape the towns and cities we live in. Here we'll be making a place where we can openly discuss urban planning for not only large cities but also our small towns - including but not limited to transit, green spaces, walkability, traffic, and anything related to living in an urban environment.

Many of you already know me, I'm Scrubbles, passionate about Urbanism and excited to see what we can do with this community.

I welcome all posts about Urbanism - videos about it, articles, open questions, whatever you may like!

Minor housekeeping, rules will come as they are needed, my big two are "Don't be a dick" - meaning discussion is welcome and arguments are fine, but I don't tolerate personal attacks, and keep posts on target. Obviously these will evolve with the community.

Hopefully this will be my only "announcement" style post, but felt like we should kick it off somewhere. Welcome!

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good call. While urbanism is inherently political - political moves like that are not what urbanism is about. I'll think of a good way to word that into a rule. That would fit more into a politics community

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah like to answer this question: should homeless people be allowed to simply take public space and turn it into their own private home (by placing a tent or string or some kind of divider, indicating "this is now MY area", even though it was meant to be shared by everyone), and/or yelling and screaming at people (or singing? but in particular AT someone, like directed point-blank into their face) who simply want to walk down the street unmolested, who has the right to do what there? (I am presenting the more centrist view here, with respect to the USA norms, as the extremist views on either side are more well-known so I presume this is enough to convey most of the topic) - is that kind of post allowed?

Probably I am overthinking it, definitely for the short term, but eventually this will come up, spurred on all the more quickly by it actually happening irl, and so people will want to talk about it.

What made me think of it is seeing how on Reddit r/washingtondc rarely these days has posts such as "Sunset from Monument looking west" and "Any good October/Halloween 5ks?", and instead that sub has been nearly completely subsumed by the events that are on everyone's minds in that area. Understandably!!!

And an example on the Threadiverse: the !AskUSA@discuss.online community, despite an explicit rule demanding no purely political posts, and where we even direct people to communities that explicitly welcome such (e.g. !politicaldiscussion/lemmy.world), nearly every single post there has become political. Hopefully that affects your community to a much smaller degree - the USA really is going through some stuff right now, but that is no reason to suspend all discussions around the world about every topic.

You might even want to suspend all discussions about the USA period. Though other hotspots around the world may still offer political takes on urban planning, so you'll have to decide what you are comfortable with.

And some political discussions may legit be interesting - e.g. just how much should gentrification be allowed vs. denied, and if the latter, then by what mechanism to accomplish such?