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Don't forget that US is really big and has lots of different types of suburbs. For example, Chicago has quite a few dense walkable suburbs with easy access to
by vasilipupkin 10y ago
Don't forget that US is really big and has lots of different types of suburbs. For example, Chicago has quite a few dense walkable suburbs with easy access to public transport
- tptacek 10y agoChicago has basically two of those. :) But if you relax the public transportation constraint, I agree: the list of Chicago suburbs that defy most of the characterizations in this post is pretty large.
- vasilipupkin 10y agoOak Park, Evanston, Wilmette, pretty much all of north shore
- tptacek 10y agoSure, you can say there are four such suburbs: Oak Park/River Forest and Evanston/Wilmette. To me, each suburb pair is essentially one area, but I can't defend that argument with a straight face here. (I live in Oak Park). We also have a lot of walkable, tree-lined suburbs without huge setbacks and, with the exception of blighted commercial drags like Butterfield and Roosevelt, few of the traffic setbacks and parking lot hells that this post talks about.
- dkuntz2 10y agoIn Oak Park at least that's only because they kept getting rid of the parking lots, to the extent that there's now town valet parking (which is insane to me).