We shouldn’t need football to open streets

  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    16 days ago

    That’s a street. Streets have existed for millennia, and their purpose is to provide a common space within a city for human social and economic activity. This photo depicts that original purpose. Streets were only arrogated by motor vehicle manufactures about a century ago.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      You’re discribing something else. A plaza or a patio or whatever. A street has always been a passage from one place to another. A century ago, there was room for human social and economic activity. That was not it’s purpose, it was a common side effect of free, public space. When cars came, so came the rules that banned people from those streets.