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All of these City Lab and Strong Towns articles boil down to complaining about how every city isn't exactly like San Francisco. Some people have lifestyle pref
by fheudjdjw 7y ago
All of these City Lab and Strong Towns articles boil down to complaining about how every city isn't exactly like San Francisco. Some people have lifestyle preferences that are not as common in the bay area. Some people want good infrastructure so that they can commute from affordable housing. This is an example of SV hubris.
- burlesona 7y agoThe founder of Strong Towns lives in Brainerd, Minnesota, and the entire organization was for many years exclusively focused on problems in small towns in rural America. It's very different from City Lab.
- rezonetheburbs 7y agoYou have the causality mixed up. Housing isn't inherently expensive in cities. Building housing costs about the same everywhere, but land is expensive because of artificial scarcity. It's amazing how much America has and yet there are only a small handful of places where you can walk to a grocery store, and the privilege will cost you $2,500 per month. Every single state could easily support walkable cities (Europe manages), but they don't because of a pathological pattern of development pioneered after WWII. I don't know how to help people who live in sparse suburbs. Not everyone needs to live in Manhattan, but exurban sprawl is alienating (and unsustainable to boot). It just doesn't build community.
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