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If you don't build more schools, hospitals etc. (essentially everything) along with allowing more housing - then you shift problem down the line.
by llukas 8y ago
If you don't build more schools, hospitals etc. (essentially everything) along with allowing more housing - then you shift problem down the line.
- seibelj 8y agoYour argument - that increased population causes the support infrastructure to buckle - is 100% false. If supporting a growing population was an insurmountable obstacle, then no city would ever grow. We know how to handle growth, this is a solved problem.
- DrScump 8y agoYour argument - that increased population causes the support infrastructure to buckle - is 100% false. It was certainly true in SV as it grew. For example, my high school had to go on double session as it had to handle more than double the number of students it was designed for. In wintertime, upperclassmen went to school in pitch dark, and freshmen walked home in pitch dark.
- EADGBE 8y agoCould they not erect schools fast enough? Surely the funding was there?
- DrScump 8y agoA high school takes a large plot of vacant land as well as a lot of development. The eventual solution was the building of a huge new high school complex known as Ed Park, eventually renamed Independence High School, on much cheaper land well to the south.
- EADGBE 8y agoI remember attending most of my middle school (6th & 7th grade) in "modules". Which is really just a fancy term for a trailer. There were probably 5-10 of them adjacent to the parking lot. It's how they handled the fact that our town was growing too fast. Still use that method today in between builds. But that's "wide open spaces" kinda land.
- llukas 8y agoSolved problem? Doesn't look like one: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-has-left-the-area-the-cities-paying-for-tesla-gigafactory https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-...