Unlimited "What defines a European city" urban theory debate thread

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So a bit of the White european cultural superiority in his head then?

Fixed for completeness.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Well even European cities won't be European for long. Have you seen how smudgy they're getting?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well it might not be outright racism. Them dahkies an wot not is bettah of if they wos brought up in a civiloized place loik london i fink roight?

Twid
just wanted to type in cockney really

[LMNO]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

That unfurnished countries don't have cities like Europe does.

Wait, seriously?  I had presumed that the whole "what's a city" had a larger point.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Yep thats a typically european attitude too vex.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

That unfurnished countries don't have cities like Europe does.

Wait, seriously?  I had presumed that the whole "what's a city" had a larger point.

Read the first page of this thread.  I mean, if you can bring yourself to do it.

[Dildo Argentino]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

The point I was trying to make was that the news that now over half the humans on Earth live in cities may be misleading to someone used to cities in the European sense (where the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless part of the population is a small minority), because the larger part of that massive urban population consists of exactly those people: the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless slum-dwellers of cities of the world.

It was actually a tangential part of a rather long description of what I believe in, which you can read in its original context here:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31295.msg1134683.html#msg1134683

[Dildo Argentino]

If you can't handle being pestered atrociously, and you don't wish to just conform to the tribethink here (oh, and there very much is one, though I'll get my head kicked in for this, I know), then you have no business coming here.

And this is why Holist will never get along ANYWHERE he goes.   

But I already do! And I go many places! 

[Dildo Argentino]

So a bit of the european cultural superiority in his head then?

No.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

The point I was trying to make was that the news that now over half the humans on Earth live in cities may be misleading to someone used to cities in the European sense (where the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless part of the population is a small minority), because the larger part of that massive urban population consists of exactly those people: the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless slum-dwellers of cities of the world.

It was actually a tangential part of a rather long description of what I believe in, which you can read in its original context here:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31295.msg1134683.html#msg1134683

Translation:  Many non-European cities are full of poor people, who don't count.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If you can't handle being pestered atrociously, and you don't wish to just conform to the tribethink here (oh, and there very much is one, though I'll get my head kicked in for this, I know), then you have no business coming here.

And this is why Holist will never get along ANYWHERE he goes.   

But I already do! And I go many places! 

Balls.  If you had anywhere to go, you wouldn't be here.  You've made it painfully obvious that you dislike or hold in disdain everyone on this board.

[Dildo Argentino]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

The point I was trying to make was that the news that now over half the humans on Earth live in cities may be misleading to someone used to cities in the European sense (where the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless part of the population is a small minority), because the larger part of that massive urban population consists of exactly those people: the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless slum-dwellers of cities of the world.

It was actually a tangential part of a rather long description of what I believe in, which you can read in its original context here:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31295.msg1134683.html#msg1134683

Translation:  Many non-European cities are full of poor people, who don't count.

That's a BAAAD translation. I was actually trying to say that they do count, and should count.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can't remember: what's the point he was trying to make?

The point I was trying to make was that the news that now over half the humans on Earth live in cities may be misleading to someone used to cities in the European sense (where the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless part of the population is a small minority), because the larger part of that massive urban population consists of exactly those people: the completely disenfranchised, poor and hopeless slum-dwellers of cities of the world.

It was actually a tangential part of a rather long description of what I believe in, which you can read in its original context here:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31295.msg1134683.html#msg1134683

Translation:  Many non-European cities are full of poor people, who don't count.

That's a BAAAD translation. I was actually trying to say that they do count, and should count.

Where?  You were saying that cities like that didn't really count as cities, at least in the "European" sense.

[Dildo Argentino]

Balls.  If you had anywhere to go, you wouldn't be here.  You've made it painfully obvious that you dislike or hold in disdain everyone on this board.

Well, I am terribly sorry to be so contrary again, but no, I did not. (Please note that I am posting regularly in all of 2 threads, with the occasional picture and video thrown in, oh, and a few responses to questions. Why am I not sinking out of sight?)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, I am terribly sorry to be so contrary again, but no, I did not.

You sure as fuck have, on several occasions.