Canada’s post-war policies on urbanism were first outlined in an obscure 1944 government document known as the Curtis Report. This report was a critical turning point for major changes in housing and community planning, setting Canada on a different course than the United Kingdom and the United States.
White people invented the suburbs specifically to get away from ni-, I mean, "urban thugs," and we're all continuing the (literally) pay the stupid, stupid price.
I have figured out what bothers me about some of the yards around here: they are planted for looks, not functionality or with any regard to habitat for local wildlife, functionality (for humans or animals), but solely for looks/decor. Thus entire yards made of plastic. (plastic lawn... useless, polluting, terrible looking) #random#suburban#suburbs#yards
Suburban life: Wednesday is yard care day. Leaf blowers everywhere. Man is mowing the lawn, even though the lawn doesn't need any mowing, because he doesn't get paid if the lawn isn't mowed. Must burn that gasoline for appearances. (if it were my house, no problem -- no lawn). #climate#suburbs#fossilfuels
Strange thing, people who never go outside into their yard, paying people to mow the lawns they never step foot on or look at, and pay people to clean the pool, which they never swim in. #suburbs
Signs of a more enlightened street around here... cluster of houses all with native plants in the front yards! (multiple houses with that Monarch Waystation sign, even) #gardening#natives#nature#suburbs
Walking the dog around the suburban neighborhood I am in right now, I am struck by how out-of-sync the yards are to the native landscape. Water thirsty plants. Large expanses of lawn. Imported plants which cannot take drought or heat. Imported river rocks. Only one yard with natives that the birds and insects here could forage. Almost zero edible plants or fruit trees visible. #suburbs#nature
Today in Labor History August 23, 1900: Folk and protest singer Malvina Reynolds was born in San Francisco, California. She is most famous for her song, "Little Boxes," a satire on suburbia, inspired by the tacky sprawl of housing in Daly City, just outside of San Francisco. And used as the theme music for the TV series “Weeds.” As a teen, the city’s elite Lowell High School refused to give her a diploma because her parents opposed US participation in World War I.
I'd avoid anywhere within 5 km of the CBD Traffic is crappy, people are crappy, crime is everywhere, some people don't like it because it full of refugees from Hong Kong and other places, but which suburbs would you AVOID?
Who would have guessed this? The furious right-wingers disrupting school board meetings across the US are almost exclusively white suburbanites. All that (faux) rage out there that the media wants us to believe is due to econoomic dispossession among struggling working-class citizens….
It's hard to get more privileged than living white in a suburb, isn't it?
Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars only, cheap gas, and free parking?
The Exodusters were Black Americans who migrated westward, particularly to Kansas, in the late 19th century fleeing southern violence & discrimination. In 1879, 1000s of Exodusters embarked on an arduous journey, hoping to finally find freedom, land, & economic independence. It is known as the Exoduster Movement and it was the first great migration of Black Americans after the Civil War.
IF YOU COULD LIVE anywhere in Brisbane where would you AVOID
I'd avoid anywhere within 5 km of the CBD Traffic is crappy, people are crappy, crime is everywhere, some people don't like it because it full of refugees from Hong Kong and other places, but which suburbs would you AVOID?