‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6669422
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian
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is it just me or are all the pics in that article extremely unflattering
All the human pictures just look pretty natural. Maybe we arent used to that anymore lol. The blank white buildings are kinda lame but energetically the best choice in hot regions i believe.
oh i didn't even notice the humans i meant the buildings. why are they so zoomed in?
I find your comments absolutely fascinating because it’s such a great example of how people can, whether they knew why or not, spot something odd visually. You don’t need to be a professional to know that these are not good photos. Portraits aside, those are fine I guess.
The reason it looks so weird to you is because they’re heavily cropped. They aren’t zoomed in via the lens, they just did heavy cropping for (seemingly) no reason. Zooming in to a subject on the lens and cropping in post produce radically different results.
The reality is they probably did not want to get releases for everybody in the photos, so they just told somebody “crop them out” and that was what we got. Not a guarantee, but if I had to take a guess, that would be my first one.
Another consequence is you see a lot of buildings, but no ground, so you have no sense of where or what size they are.
Yeah they needed some overview shots or at least a map or something.
Can't expect to mimic the curbside aesthetics of the model walkable-city when you're dealing with 100+ degree heat for a third of the year.