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This site/magazine/think-tank/whatever has told the same story for years ... certainly there are case studies that they would cite as following their ideas if t
by smoyer 7y ago
This site/magazine/think-tank/whatever has told the same story for years ... certainly there are case studies that they would cite as following their ideas if those were succeeding somewhere? Barring evidence and scientific trials, aren't these ravings from a group of malcontents?
- projektfu 7y agoIt takes a long time to do the experiment. A few years isn't enough. The suburban pattern experiment was enacted without any control group and now we're finally recognizing that it didn't work out as we hoped. Now that people are realizing that Jane Jacobs was on to something, we have to experiment to go forward. The default in America is going to be what we're familiar with. Continue building the next subdivision on the nearest farmland or forest. Run more roads to it, widen the current ones to handle the new traffic, watch as the people pull up stakes in their current suburbs and move out, leaving the existing ones to decay. Towns that follow a different approach will be able to see results in different timescales, but hopefully we will relearn how to build towns that can last generations.