Or better still reduce some of the zoning regs and, minimize the influence of developers and encourage more natural city growth occurs. Everyday people are better drivers of than any computer model because it is based on what is needed, and there. Much better than growth motivated by profit.

@@b_uppy Yes. In person organizing and participation in vital. I'm also into concepts of participatory planning, design, and democracy. Private dictatorships are not participatory or direct democracy. They push people around, systemically oppress, gentrify, zone, etc. Capitalism is reductionist and individualist and not based in any of the principles of anything I've mentioned. We need plans and regulation based on STEM and with the goal of providing for all people and the rest of life on earth and the whole climate system as well. It shouldn't be treated like an aimless and superficial game. People can't be part of real systemic solutions if they have to waste so much time playing the empty games and propping up a bunch of pointless and opulent lifestyles while the world burns.

@@SlowlyYouRot STEM is less than organic and antithetical. It is a form of gentrification and leads to serfdom serfdom as much as any system that gives overt preference. It is ignorant to blame capitalism for the current woes when the real problem is centralizing, globalist, capitalist elitists. Most government rules usually cause more harm because they are deliberately exclusionary of the needs of many people. Most regulations are a form of protectionism of the rich and powerful in a mutually sustaining relationship. They are hard to change by committee, especially on a global scale. What we really need is a holistic approach that looks at giving the most value at least possible cost and a return to ethics. We need to look to nature, as nature has a million efficiencies that tech is fery far away from...