Hipsters Dream Of Environmental Fascism Reshaping Kansas City Downtown Loop

A bit of AMATEUR URBAN PLANNING FICTION circulates today amongst white-middle-class 30 & 40 somethings who live to pretend that they're persecuted. 

To wit . . .  

CHECK THE PLAN TO OUTLAW PERSONAL AUTO OWNERSHIP IN KANSAS CITY!!!

Basically . . .

It's a graph for people with expensive shoes so that they can yell at their mom about her SUV over Christmas dinner.

Check the plan that's really more of a vendetta against long dead white dudes . . .

"For the sake of argument, I want to explore if a plan could be developed using the same unconstrained planning approach that has been utilized by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The new master planner for this project would use all the tools of the FHWA, such as urban renewal to fight blight and encourage economic development. Less desirable uses of land, like surface parking lots, could be relocated and more productive uses could be proposed with the purpose of maximizing redevelopment potential and increasing overall efficiency. The plan would have very little environmental impact, and therefore would be exempt from environmental constraints, because all of the redevelopment would occur within the existing disturbed areas of downtown. The plan would likewise have no fiscal constraints, thanks to access to bonds and grants, and because of the promised projection of increased development. All of these tools would work together through a completely unconstrained plan to transform the downtown."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

A Massive Top-Down Plan To Fix a Massive Top-Down Mistake

This is a simple graphic of Kansas City, Missouri, in which Clarkin has illustrated all of the available parking within the downtown loop-his point being to highlight the blight that came with the downtown loop since its construction 50 years ago. This graphic is intended to illustrate what is hiding in plain sight: a whole lot of parking.