Every time someone talks about space travel I'm reminded of the McMansion Hell article Jackson Gilman-Forlini wrote about rowhouses [0]. It's mostly a technical

Every time someone talks about space travel I'm reminded of the McMansion Hell article Jackson Gilman-Forlini wrote about rowhouses [0]. It's mostly a technical breakdown of the design and aesthetics of rowhouses, but he also mentions how urban neighborhoods had a surprising amount of racial and class diversity before public transit and automobiles: "It made sense that both boss and employee should live near their work, and therefore live near one another... This pattern of urban living changed only with the advent of trolleys, when the wealthy could afford to commute and consequently removed themselves from older neighborhoods and the working class." He cites Mary Ellen Hayward's book (which I have not read) "Baltimore’s Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s" I currently believe that this pattern will repeat itself should space travel become affordable for the wealthy. I imagine suburbs on the moon and my neighborhood being demolished to make way for a big-dumb ugly space highway so the city planners who don't actually live here can get in and out of my town as fast as possible. [0] http://mcmansionhell.com/post/163793178726/guest-article-rowhouses-urban-living-at-its-best http://mcmansionhell.com/post/163793178726/guest-article-row...