Ricky Vernio crashes suburbia! & Not Just Bikes!
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| Lake Mjøsa seen from Øverskreien at Toten, Norway, February 2026. Stock-bilde | Adobe Stock All a suburban wasteland, thanks to Robert Moses! "We Can Build Compact Walkable Towns Instead of Suburban Wastelands" - James Howard Kunstler What is a Market Town? |
"Robert Moses is one of the most controversial figures in, well, in history. We all know that our car-centric culture is hardly a positive phenomenon. But: was it a natural, logical civilizational development or was it planned; and if it was, was it only Moses and his cronies who were responsible for instituting it? Watch the video to find out." - Ricky Vernio
"You’re sitting in traffic, $30 poorer, staring at a glass box where a historic neighborhood used to be. We call it "progress," but Robert Moses called it a vision.
In this video, we look at the legacy of the "Master Builder" of New York: Robert Moses. From the arched stone bridges of the Northern State Parkway to the demolition of East Tremont, we explore how one man forced a car-centric culture onto the world. Or did he?
Was he a lone villain, or did we hand him the wrecking ball voluntarily? We’re traveling from the Gold Coast of Long Island to the skyscrapers of Stockholm to find out who is truly responsible for the "greatest misallocation of resources in history."" - Ricky Vernio
If you go to Oslo, only go to Grünerløkka, built between 1860-1900 for the working class. They should demolish it, but Audun Engh and a few others launched a successful rebellion. Don't come with boat to Oslo, as the new Barcode is horrible. You can go with boat from Oslo to Copenhagen though, as the Oslo Fjord is beautiful, and you can turn your back to the new seaside of Oslo. The best is probably to land in the old Hanseatic town of Bergen, taking the train to Oslo, stay a couple of days at Grünerløkka, then take the ferry to Copenhagen. Not much else to see in Oslo now, except for the Vigeland Park, as most of the old, gorgeous museums are moved to new, horrific buildings by the seaside, like the Munch Museum and the National Museum. Our coastline is destroyed by wind power plants, and the countryside has become suburbanized. I live at a very old farm with loads of history, but it cannot be transferred to the next generations, as infrastructure and suburban McMansions has destroyed it all. We're in the process of moving to the rare mountain village of Lom, where they miraculously managed to maintain their identity, in contrast to the neighboring village of Vågå. It's sad, as the man who initiated the famous Neo-Romantic group of the Lillehammermalerne Painters, Kristen Holbø, was from Vågå. You might take a train to Lillehammer Art Museum to learn more about the Lillehammermalerne Painters, although that museum is a tragedy too, but it's not so big, and the walking street of Lillehammer is still worth a walk. Lom is surrounded by national parks and five of Norway's seven highest peaks. I will devote the rest of my life to photography there.
"Try your best to make a new thing which, as far as possible, reflects, respects, and honors what is there already." – Christopher Alexander
I watched your video 1,5 times now, brilliant! Well, I know what to do about suburbia, move to Grünerløkka! I decided this week, and hope to tell my family next week. Just now I have to drive my wife and daughter 9 km to the nearest bus station and back again, so they can go to work and visit friends. I live far out on the countryside, but this is suburbia as well. This is a very old place with a ton of history, but all our cultural heritage is now filled up with McMansions, cars and adjoining infrastructure. They just sit there watching Netflix, gathering garbage and driving around on their lawn-mover-tanks. I don't know what kind of life this really is, and how they endure, as it seems pointless to me. That they too have completely ruined the original lifestyle, heritage and landscapes with their lifestyles, makes it even more baffling to me. What is the point of living a mindless consumer lifestyle in a landscape and a culture that your preferred lifestyle has completely destroyed?
I too decided I will transfer to Fujifilm and drop stock, making my own portfolio. Too I will transfer from being a landscape photographer into a travel photographer, when we move to Grünerløkka. It will be hard to find something there, but we will eventually! I will put my girls on the task, while I concentrate on my photographic transformation.
Wish I could paint like you, but my youngest daughter is very clever in drawing and painting, so maybe she can become a painter some day?
Not Just Bikes følger opp Ricky Vernio! Gjett om jeg hater det suburbane hølet og bilhelvetet Øverskreien!
Derfor ønsket vi å bli urbanister, og å leve i en herlig lommekrok i et levende lommetun, hvor selvsagt disse suburbane bildjevlene bosatte seg midt i kvasi-lommetunet vårt, og jaget oss tilbake til Grythølet vårt.
Men nå er Gjøvik kjørt, Øverskreien er kjørt og den vestlige sivilisasjon er kjørt. Udyrene har kjørt i sønder alt sammen😰
"The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. We shall use up tires, wear out road surfaces and gears, consume oil and gasoline. All of which will necessitate a great deal of work … enough for all." – Le Corbusier, 1935
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