After reading Dietz's essay, I don't think she's implying that walkability is an artificial perk. I think she's saying that because going to Walmart is not easy anymore, she's not tempted to go spend money on something she can fix with ingenuity instead.
We all go through different seasons in life, sometimes most valuing thriftiness, sometimes most valuing convenience.
The idea that there's something like cheating or shortcutting necessary work in walkability, more broadly the Puritan-ish idea that things we like are necessarily bad
Marvelous piece of confected urbanism. "Stuckness" does seem to have some agency. I think it's Screwtape that has seeped into the system. But we can't game the system. We can't "will" that it move for us. What a bring down as we age. For awhile we were so efficacious through our screens. If we could limn it out in detail, summarize in a meme, and the girl across the table nodded "Yes," we imagined we were about to "seize the day."
After reading Dietz's essay, I don't think she's implying that walkability is an artificial perk. I think she's saying that because going to Walmart is not easy anymore, she's not tempted to go spend money on something she can fix with ingenuity instead.
We all go through different seasons in life, sometimes most valuing thriftiness, sometimes most valuing convenience.
Addison, I totally don't get the following sentence. What is the implication that Dietz is possibly intending to make?
Obviously I disagree with that implication, if Dietz even intends to make it, but there’s something there.
The idea that there's something like cheating or shortcutting necessary work in walkability, more broadly the Puritan-ish idea that things we like are necessarily bad
Thx.
Marvelous piece of confected urbanism. "Stuckness" does seem to have some agency. I think it's Screwtape that has seeped into the system. But we can't game the system. We can't "will" that it move for us. What a bring down as we age. For awhile we were so efficacious through our screens. If we could limn it out in detail, summarize in a meme, and the girl across the table nodded "Yes," we imagined we were about to "seize the day."