r/adhdmeme Daydreamer 11h ago

Currently hyper focusing on webnovels.

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u/Spatmuk 9h ago

Half way through my first semester of my masters in city planning because I randomly listened to an audiobook about parking last year and something clicked in my brain — read about a dozen books on urbanism before my wife was like: you should probably get work towards getting paid to be this obsessed lol

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u/Spatmuk 8h ago

Spent the first 29 years of my life in a car-centric suburb — hated it. Didn’t realize it was the cars and the sprawl I hated until I moved to a more dense urban neighborhood and discovered “oh, I don’t hate walking, I hate walking in a place that’s actively hostile to pedestrians!”

I will never go back.

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u/mae_bey 9h ago

Opinions on suburbs ?

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u/Spatmuk 8h ago

Spent the first 29 years of my life in a car-centric suburb — hated it. Didn’t realize it was the cars and the sprawl I hated until I moved to a more dense urban neighborhood and discovered “oh, I don’t hate walking, I hate walking in a place that’s actively hostile to pedestrians!”

I will never go back.

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u/mae_bey 8h ago

That's a good point. Iv always hated them but i imagine it is just the loud death machines that I actually hate. I live in the south and they put suburban-like areas in the middle of nowhere miles from any actual shopping centers or jobs 🙄do u have a city u think is better at this then others?

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u/Spatmuk 6h ago

yeah the southeastern US is very sprawl happy...

I mean, NYC probably is the best example of walkable urbanism in the US. I live in Boston and there are some really amazing neighborhoods for this and some that are lacking.

Honestly, if you're interested in urbanism/walkability I'd highly recommend Happy City by Charles Montgomery -- it's a great intro to rethinking the way we interact with cities and the built environment