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Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




boner confessor posted:

i can verify myself, badger of basra, and stichensis as bona fide urban planning thing knowers to field any questions about how it works

please though these threads always become dumb slapfights about how living in cities/suburbs is good/bad and you're cool/stupid for living there/not living there so please none of that idiocy thanks

I have a question for you: will we (North America) ever come around on the Missing Middle argument? Or is it too late and suburban sprawl is here to stay?

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Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004






Its more about the type of housing we build and density as far as I can tell? Its a huge part of the burbs since, as you pointed out, it relies heavily on owning a vehicle.

Can we add whats missing to existing areas or is that something that has to be done from the start?

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




So things can change but its going to be expensive and requires a good chunk of the population to support the moves? And so long as developers make the most money from the bad kind of suburban sprawl this isnt likely to happen I guess.

OK this might be further from your specialization but how do suburbs handle upgrades to public transit. Stuff like high speed rail seem like super important things we should be working towards but they clash with how things currently operate. Are there ways for the two to work together?

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