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Its part of city life. I lived across the street from a fire house. On one corner was a bar and laundrymat. Up the street was a taqueria, body shop and corner s

Its part of city life. I lived across the street from a fire house. On one corner was a bar and laundrymat. Up the street was a taqueria, body shop and corner store - a block over was EFF. Behind, an artifact of the neighborhood’s blue collar past was a metal fab shop. The rhymic cur-chunk of the punch presses often put me to sleep on a saturday afternoon only to be startled awake by sirens. At the time it suited me fine. It is clear to me though that we still need suburbs. For some at certain points in their life they need the quiet. We have too suburbs though. I think many folks could live in denser environs. Its backwards that cities are more expensive than suburbs. Density should lower costs. High populations should lower costs. There should be both economies of scale and network effects. I think, to the writers point, we regulate the wrong things.

Camillo 8y ago
But then in suburbs your boomer neighbor will be riding his gasoline lawnmower outside your window at 7 am on a Saturday. Or he'll be paying his gardener to push leaves into his neighbor's lawn with a leaf-blower (a device that ought to be banned by law) instead of using a fucking rake.
osdiab 8y ago
Cities don't have to be loud. My neighborhood in Tokyo is the one of the quietest I've ever lived in but minutes from places that are denser than literally anywhere in the United States. Not having giant streets, as well as nuisance zoning [1] pretty much solves that problem. [1] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html