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Notes on Urban Planning

I have noticed most of Capitalism's urban planning revolves around the product, service, or business itself. Even on the extreme end in America's case, the country is planned around the product of the car itself. A store, a mechanic shop, a laundromat, etc. Versus a more socialist or communist urban planning which is more around the worker or human themselves, a community hall, a union meeting facility, etc, while products and services are of course still needed they can at least be contained in a more social manner to focus on the person. In stead of miles of just single buildings that are businesses, we can look more towards a "market square" as we used to have, or a more socialist/communist version of Japanese urban design. Theirs is a "district" type approach, but centered still on bourgeois ideals and class. Overall, we must go back to this human centric design of encouraging social interaction and design with intention.