It really blows my mind how in America you can drive around the downtown of what is ostensibly a city of two million people and see a grand total of like twelve pedestrians

The built environment of this country is such a soul crushing tragedy
The fact that “financial district” is an existing thing is so incredibly bleak

It’s also interesting to see the decaying concrete of the 60s and 70s give way to the new Pod Style of CAD-generated Reddit sports bars and slick oligarchic money containers
It’s an unbelievably intractable problem — the vast majority of the American built environment is a total vacuum, with empty oceans of concrete and procedurally generated grab-bags of exurban detritus that scars the land and atomizes people
Basically we have to fix the basic grammar that generates our material reality, and nobody really has any idea of what a project of comprehensive urban reintegration would look like. Rolling back a half century of damage and building good things would require a massive workforce
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