Also describes the orcs’ drink they gave to the hobbits very much like you would describe coffee
Not even freshly ground… just like mass produced coffee
The best part of wakin’ up
Huh, I never interpreted it that way! Then again, I’m not a coffee drinker.
Doesn’t Bilbo make actual coffee for the dwarves at the start of the Hobbit?
Tree is good, no tree is sad. Sounds reasonable enough!
“Urban sprawl” is an oxymoron. Dense urban areas are good, actually; it’s only the suburbs that sprawl.
This is not true? Lots of urban areas can sprawl, not least because of car centric planning (big car parks between islands of actual land use; roads built to ease the traffic of roads; urban ‘islands’ of tall and dense occupation connected by road with slivers of green in-between that don’t serve to actually offer a natural environment. Kuala Lumpur features all of these, for example) but also as economic centres decline and become disused and new developments in other areas spread.
Especially they sprawl when the developers are allowed to do as they please. They want the most profitable option, which is barren and opposed to what people and local government usually want
Nah. Sprawl is real, I live in one of the worst offenders
I know sprawl is real. I’m saying it isn’t “urban.”
Semantics.
Not really.
It should be called suburban sprawl
It should be called the place with trees and loosely densely population that would be okay if cars weren’t so ubiquitous because some people like space but let’s make sure not to exclude minorities so people don’t end up racist.
Agreed. Suburban sprawl I meant
Tokyo
Tokyo (mostly) isn’t sprawl; that’s just how much space 40 million people take up.
That’s still urban sprawl though. It doesn’t need to be inefficient, it just needs to be constantly expanding.
That is still better than the alternative of suburbs. Could it be better designed or something. Idk, maybe.
The urban area is 80 miles across
Where do you suggest all the people go?
Are you really anti urban or are you anti people?
I’m anti so many people that you need a dense urban area 80 miles across to fit them all
What do you suppose we do, kill them?
Implement proper demography and population growth schemes so that you don’t end up with so many people in the first place, manage your population distribution on a national level so as not to overwhelm the natural resources of any one area, build walkable communities with a variety of density to suit peoples differing needs
Where I live, rich urban areas have plenty of trees and frequently get more planted around. Meanwhile, poorer areas receive zero trees because “they don’t have trees to receive maintenance”.
One does not simply walk to downtown. You MUST own a car.
Thankfully Boromir was wrong, and they do walk into Mordor. At least I don’t have Shelob guarding the way when I go to the movie theater
“My name is KENNETH, ACKTUALLY, and you NEED A TICKET to see Spiderman”
“No admittance after the show has started sir. It helps preserve the ambiance.”
I normally don’t post about my blog here, but I literally posted this today so…https://dantheclamman.blog/2024/04/24/environmentally-youve-got-to-hand-it-to-sauron/
Despite what you might think of Skynyrd, they cover this topic in a relatable way. Arcade Fire also covers it kind of. Sorry for the links but I’m a huge music nerd.
Around here, sprawl is a major issue. We have some of the most fertile soils in the world, and we pave over them without regard. It’s abhorrent. I don’t make the ‘most fertile soils’ comment lightly - this is my area of expertise, professionally. The only other places I can think of that have better soil quality than where I live are Russia and the Ukraine.
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Very much this. Well written and thoughtful comment, BTW.
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Around here
Where’s that, for those of us who aren’t your neighbours? 😛
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No wonder Ukraine and Russia have better soil quality, that’s a pretty low bar.
Housing developments that scour the earth bare and named after that which they destroyed. Fox Run, Oak Ridge, Forest Brook, etc…
Tolkien is but an average tree enjoyer.
