I Find It Fascinating That Judaism Is The Only Religion With Explicit Commandments Pertaining To Urban

I find it fascinating that Judaism is the only religion with explicit commandments pertaining to urban planning, setting out how cities are to be built for the Leviites. The Torah specifies that their core cities must be dense, surrounded by an undisturbed green belt, only allowing for agricultural work outside of that belt.

It seems as if Judaism is an inherently urban religion due to the requirement to live in walking distance of a Synagogue for Shabbat, making Jews the earliest advocates of something like a 15-minute city.

I wonder what the impacts of religion on urban planning are more broadly and which religions promote ideals conducive to good planning. Judaism most directly encourages density and green space as a mitzvah, but what other religions have unique and religiously inspired ideas on how cities should be planned?

I think this is an important and often overlooked question for urbanists as lobbying for change with a diverse coalition of religious communities aligned with urbanist goals of various shades would be hugely helpful towards the causes of both good urban planning and positive incorporation of religions, especially minority religions, in society and decision making.

It's such a funny thing because given the blogs that I follow and how they make such overtly and unabashedly personal posts informing everyone of how "in the mood" they are with posts that often sound something like:

"Feeling really [h-word] and just want to [something gay and raunchy] with [their preferred type]"

I feel like it wouldn't be that big of surprise to anyone who follows me, or anyone who happens to stumble upon one of my posts if I were to carry out the same action of making similarly toned posts.

I always stop myself before making them though, because there's this mentality I have that says that I need to maintain a so-called "professional and academic integrity" (as if I were the New York Times) in my blog.

In essence, it allows me to communicates similar in-the-moment feelings of arousal without straying too far into the territory of things that I couldn't say on YouTube without immediately getting demonetized.

That said, many of my posts are literally about how I would write the perfect fart scene, so who am I really fooling?

Me when I'm in a "thinking being passive aggressive is a personality trait" competition and my opponent is a 16-22 y/o white girl who does e-girl adjacent makeup, and condescendingly uses the words "babes", "bestie", "hope this helps!" and the ":)" emoji as if she's the "edgier" equivalent of a stereotypically mean girl from a Disney Channel show.

Hell is real, and it's called watching in increasing annoyance as your parents have what I can only assume is an anxiety-induced frenzy in which they will somehow find every way possible to avoid walking out the door for as long as possible by aimlessly walk around the house claiming they "just need to do this" or they "just need to grab that" and then they'll supposedly be "ready to go".

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????