Recent content by Ramsayite

It's kind of an ideal urban infill situation at this scale. Developing the grass wasteland perimeter while leaving the existing commercial is a pretty unobtrusive way to develop this. I.e before the current amenities disappear new CRUs can be built to accommodate retailers to move over and then...

I read through the comments that the city collected . The amount of comments on loss of "parkland" really grinds my gears. It just proves that nimbys will grab onto anything that they can to oppose the development without actually understanding what they're saying. Lots of comments referencing...

Ok but this is exactly my point . The culture and geography of the region very much includes the reality I discussed; The commodification, enclosure, and ecological destruction of prairie landscapes for animal agriculture Is inextricably connected to the vernacular of western "design motifs"...

Totally fair feedback. Apologies for being too passionate about a niche idea. Edited for civility

Would love to see this one start going up.

Here's you discussing thematic elements without artificially hamstringing available construction materials... What did you think, the arena was going to be built out of sky and horse bones? I thought I was expanding on your point and correcting a few misconceptions about what "Prairie Lands"...

I think you're misinterpreting my point in a typically reactionary way. I'm not railing against modernity, lol. I'm commenting on thematics. [...] Certainly the whole thing isn't going to be built out of cowboy hats, leather, barn boards and railway ties either, is it? Unpack that for...

That's great, thanks for finding that. 23/31 native species is better than most attempts in this city. Now let's see if they end up planted through holes in black plastic under dyed mulch. Overall, it seems like a reasonable attempt and doing some native species landscaping though. I was...

While we are at it make a thread on western themes and purge all that shit too

I don't think it's any more off topic than most of what has been discussed here in this thread. There are examples of barn door cowboy design posted and promoted just above, but ok. Yep that's kind of the token item I critiqued in my post Got a species list? The Elms are a cool heritage...

Here's a "decolonial" western mood board:

Annoying "extremist" take incoming.... Celebrating "western" culture is just celebrating colonialism and ecosystem destruction in disguise, imo. If we're going to celebrate this land, let's celebrate the landscapes and prairies that were here for centuries before a bunch ranchers came...

People who care to learn about city building tend to realize there's a pretty strong consensus on what makes for a good public realm. It's pretty basic stuff to understand the negative externalities of cars and car infrastructure. If one applies even a bit of earnest effort into learning about...

Wow, this is weird and confusing

Nah, this is a thing politically illiterate people say.