My city, its surroundings and anything related with it
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:01 am
Below is what you may see from Lipowe hill in Limanowa, city where I live. Its about 10-15 minutes walk from city center.
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Ah yes! The stupidity of 'smart' development! We have that here in a few places, and they always end up with results like yours. In some places one county ore state adopts it, and everybody moves across the border, making the new areas flourish while the old areas - which had adopted it to preserve itself, or more likely, it's tax revenue - languishes.David Kilpatrick wrote: We are not allowed to build houses in that kind of pattern, with fields between them. They divide agricultural land and housing land strictly, so houses are grouped in estates and developments and clustered right up to the towns, then no ribbon development along roads is allowed, and no random development on farm land. It's a policy which has greatly reduced the quality of housing in Britain, increased the value of available land disproportionately, left isolated farms and old cottages in isolation with little hope of being part of a community, and left country roads neglected while main roads are overused.
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Sounded like a dream just from that snippet. Here in Texas it's suburban sprawl all over the place. All of the beautiful places are being assaulted with RV dealerships, auto salvage lots, and gas station oases. The jobs are on one side, and the homes on the other. Result: we chop up all of our open spaces with 200 ft-wide freeways, fill in the places in between with parking lots, and drive 3-ton trucks 90 miles a day to get to office jobs. Now you know why I don't post many landscapes.David Kilpatrick wrote:We are not allowed to build houses in that kind of pattern, with fields between them. They divide agricultural land and housing land strictly, so houses are grouped in estates and developments and clustered right up to the towns, then no ribbon development along roads is allowed, and no random development on farm land.
I've seen that, strip development. But the Polish town does not look like that. It looks like Austrian villages - the sort of place where a house is known by the name of the family that has lived in it for several centuries, and the four or five fields it's in are known the same way and belong to the house.KevinBarrett wrote:Sounded like a dream just from that snippet. Here in Texas it's suburban sprawl all over the place. All of the beautiful places are being assaulted with RV dealerships, auto salvage lots, and gas station oases. The jobs are on one side, and the homes on the other. Result: we chop up all of our open spaces with 200 ft-wide freeways, fill in the places in between with parking lots, and drive 3-ton trucks 90 miles a day to get to office jobs. Now you know why I don't post many landscapes.David Kilpatrick wrote:We are not allowed to build houses in that kind of pattern, with fields between them. They divide agricultural land and housing land strictly, so houses are grouped in estates and developments and clustered right up to the towns, then no ribbon development along roads is allowed, and no random development on farm land.
I was about to post that it reminded me of Austrian villages. Have you ever been to St. Jakob im Walde? It is in the countryside about half-way between Wien and Graz. Beautiful place. It reminds me of the photos in Poland.David Kilpatrick wrote:I've seen that, strip development. But the Polish town does not look like that. It looks like Austrian villages - the sort of place where a house is known by the name of the family that has lived in it for several centuries, and the four or five fields it's in are known the same way and belong to the house.
Its quite like that here in countryside. If you are looking for some address most people will not tell you where it is by house number, but ask for family name and they'll get you exact directions.David Kilpatrick wrote:I've seen that, strip development. But the Polish town does not look like that. It looks like Austrian villages - the sort of place where a house is known by the name of the family that has lived in it for several centuries, and the four or five fields it's in are known the same way and belong to the house.
There are industiral zones here too, but not everywhere. Lot of industry in lot of cities is side by side with homes and/or estates.David Kilpatrick wrote:Our industrial development is zoned, in industrial estates (what the French and Spanish both call a polygon, I think).