Suburban lawns are not only bad for the environment due to the wasted lawns and a lack of nature but they also inherently require extremely poor urban planning. When you spread people out into suburbs you force people to take cars which is horrible for peoples mental health and the environment. Furthermore houses are significantly less energy efficient than apartment buildings.
What we need instead is dense cities, with good public transportation, plenty of public spaces, so that we can shrink the amount of land we live on and allow nature to return.
This might surprise you but loads of people would find a dense city bad for their mental health.
Lawns aren’t just wasted space. At this very moment my son is riding his bike around our back yard, my daughter is out there too, probably “cooking” with pots and pans full of sand.
I have a camper trailer parked on some lawn. I have a shed full of bikes for myself and my kids.
Theres also some steel stacked up where im building a patio.
We make use of the area around us. “Lawn” is the best of a range of options to keep the area manageable and usable. An alternative would be gravel, or paving, or concrete. None of which are very appealing to me.
Suburban lawns are not only bad for the environment due to the wasted lawns and a lack of nature but they also inherently require extremely poor urban planning. When you spread people out into suburbs you force people to take cars which is horrible for peoples mental health and the environment. Furthermore houses are significantly less energy efficient than apartment buildings.
What we need instead is dense cities, with good public transportation, plenty of public spaces, so that we can shrink the amount of land we live on and allow nature to return.
This might surprise you but loads of people would find a dense city bad for their mental health.
Lawns aren’t just wasted space. At this very moment my son is riding his bike around our back yard, my daughter is out there too, probably “cooking” with pots and pans full of sand.
I have a camper trailer parked on some lawn. I have a shed full of bikes for myself and my kids.
Theres also some steel stacked up where im building a patio.
We make use of the area around us. “Lawn” is the best of a range of options to keep the area manageable and usable. An alternative would be gravel, or paving, or concrete. None of which are very appealing to me.
You are very fortunate to have all of that and also a lawn to place it.
Not really. Id say the majority of people in my area are similar.
My point is, lawns aren’t ornamental. People use the area for all kinds of things.
People if your area are also quite lucky to have both he privilege and the use for the lawns.