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> Hard to imagine people will accept a return to brown air and constant carnage. Most living people have never seen air this clear, or experienced cities so qui
by chosenbreed37 6y ago
> Hard to imagine people will accept a return to brown air and constant carnage. Most living people have never seen air this clear, or experienced cities so quiet.
It might depend on the city. I imagine that in a many large cities people go there to work or other reasons and don't necessarily live in the places most affected by traffic and pollution. I imagine that these commuters do care about the quality of the air but I suspect they care more about being able to go work or run their businesses.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe continued existence of parasitic suburbs may not be assured.
- chosenbreed37 6y ago> The continued existence of parasitic suburbs may not be assured. What about the folks who've spent a small fortune to live in those "parasitic suburbs" LOL?
- ferzul 6y agosomething can be expensive even after subsidy. most people accept that cars are more expensive than bikes, despite having an incredible subsidy
- dsfyu404ed 6y agoThe cities don't have the housing and service capacity for all the people who work there. The cities and suburbs wouldn't exist in anything near their current form without each other. Neither would exist as they are if rural areas didn't provide the resources they do with the (tiny) amount of labor they do. Our entire modern world is interconnected like that. You can try and turn policy knobs in order to have a steep urban to rural transition with minimal suburbs in between but there's always going to be a transition, never a sharp cutoff.
- jeffbee 6y agoI’m talking about the real parasites, the ones where they draw a line around their fancy houses and say “that’s your school district and this is ours” but reserve the right to drive to and through your city, and park there, and access its jobs and cultural institutions.