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'''Disurbanism''' (Coscivian: ''Akasarisēn'', from ''aka-'' "away from" + ''sar'' "city, town") is an ideology and a design movement in [[Kiravia]] with relevance to urban and civil planning, politics, and culture. Disurbanism posits that the {{wp|city}} (and in many formulations, the {{wp|town}}) is a harmful and unnecessary formation and a poor way to organise human life, and that cities and towns as currently understood should be abandoned in favour of more geographically distributed patterns of settlement. Most disurbanists believe that while cities once served legitimate purposes, they have since been rendered obsolete by modern advances in communications and transportation technology, and that the utilitarian benefits of cities no longer justify the social, economic, and political costs of urbanocentrism. | '''Disurbanism''' (Coscivian: ''Akasarisēn'', from ''aka-'' "away from" + ''sar'' "city, town") is an ideology and a design movement originating in [[Kiravia]] with relevance to urban and civil planning, politics, and culture. Disurbanism posits that the {{wp|city}} (and in many formulations, the {{wp|town}}) is a harmful and unnecessary formation and a poor way to organise human life, and that cities and towns as currently understood should be abandoned in favour of more geographically distributed patterns of settlement. Most disurbanists believe that while cities once served legitimate purposes, they have since been rendered obsolete by modern advances in communications and transportation technology, and that the utilitarian benefits of cities no longer justify the social, economic, and political costs of urbanocentrism. | ||
Disurbanism can be distinguished from traditionalist-agrarian anti-urbanism in that disurbanists embrace technological modernity as enabling a mass escape from cities and support the diffusion of traditionally urban activities such as industry, commerce, and human services into the countryside, with the ultimate goal of erasing any clear distinction between agricultural rural areas and industrial/commercial urban ones. However, in practice there is significant overlap and coöperation between disurbanist and rural anti-urbanist currents. | Disurbanism can be distinguished from traditionalist-agrarian anti-urbanism in that disurbanists embrace technological modernity as enabling a mass escape from cities and support the diffusion of traditionally urban activities such as industry, commerce, and human services into the countryside, with the ultimate goal of erasing any clear distinction between agricultural rural areas and industrial/commercial urban ones. However, in practice there is significant overlap and coöperation between disurbanist and rural anti-urbanist currents. | ||
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Urbanist centralisation of production versus disurbanist centering of production. | Urbanist centralisation of production versus disurbanist centering of production. | ||
-Ribbon settlements | -Ribbon settlements<br> | ||
-Linear cities | -Linear cities<br> | ||
-Endless Communes Vision and New Communal Living | -Endless Communes Vision and New Communal Living<br> | ||
==Contemporary Disurbanism== | ==Contemporary Disurbanism== | ||
Disurbanists can be found among all the major political camps of modern Kiravia. Kirosocialist Disurbanists carrying on their legacy from the Kiravian Union remain active in Kirosocialist academic circles. Disurbanism is also very popular among {{wp|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian-democratic}} [[Caritist Social Union|Caritists]]. There is a long and documented antipathy towards cities among Kiravian libertarians, who view them as overregulated, bureaucratic environments that constrain economic growth and individual freedom. | Disurbanists can be found among all the major political camps of modern Kiravia. Kirosocialist Disurbanists carrying on their legacy from the Kiravian Union remain active in Kirosocialist academic circles. Disurbanism is also very popular among {{wp|distributist}} and {{wp|Christian-democratic}} [[Caritist Social Union|Caritists]]. There is a long and documented antipathy towards cities among Kiravian libertarians, who view them as overregulated, bureaucratic environments that constrain economic growth and individual freedom. | ||
In [[Urcea]], disurbanism is a very [[Housing in Urcea|popular ideology]] across the political spectrum with exceptions of the far left such as the [[Social Labor Party (Urcea)|Social Labor Party]], who favor replacement of Urcean sprawl with high density urban living, and some elements of the [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]] who believe that highly efficient urban spaces are more beneficial for creating a society of consumers. Introduced to Urcea following the [[Second Great War]] from Kiravian thinkers, Urcean disurbanists were extremely influential in residential planning during the mid- and late-20th century, removing in many places the gradient of rural-to-urban living and replacing it with what they conceived to be "highly livable" low density housing neighborhoods which encompass much of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] today. The idea remains popular among Urceans for its {{wp|distributist}} implications. | |||
===Endless Small Towns School=== | |||
[Upstate is the Future] | |||
Seminal work: ''Democratisation of the Landscape'' | |||
===Exurbanism=== | |||
[When done right suburbs and Town and Country are essentially indistinguishable.Green spaces as an effective scenic backdrop for exurban neighborhoods. | |||
God created trees as natural fencing and also places where shifty municipal buildings can be hidden from wholesome family living.] | |||
[[Category:KRV]] | [[Category:KRV]] | ||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||