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There are good reasons to believe that highly urban environments are bad for your mental health (in ways that I think are worse than how bad they are for your p

There are good reasons to believe that highly urban environments are bad for your mental health (in ways that I think are worse than how bad they are for your physical health). Sometimes I feel like strong advocates of increasingly-dense construction feel that the denser your lifestyle, the more prosocial your behavior. Maybe these advocates are among the most extraverted people, and they have little experience with the stress it causes others. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230535/

Sharlin 8y ago
And to what extent the hostility of urban environments is due to cars and car-centric planning hostile to human-scale activity? The whole point of new urbanism is creating livable, hospitable urban environments, and usually people-friendliness means car-unfriendliness. Your generic suburbs have their own problems – massively artificial, claustrophobic rows and rows of almost identical houses, with zero character and nowhere to go without a car.