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>I don’t think there’s an easy fix for this, and that makes me sad. I mean, the fix is really straightforward. You prevent the burbs from siphoning tax dollars
by ABCLAW 6y ago
>I don’t think there’s an easy fix for this, and that makes me sad.
I mean, the fix is really straightforward. You prevent the burbs from siphoning tax dollars off the host city they surround so that the high cost of sprawl is placed on them, rather than poorer city-center districts.
Then, you emulate the community and land-use strategies of areas in which the eldest are least displaced. One of the key features of global blue zones is the inclusion of elders in society.
This means opening up a lot of zoning space to mixed medium density residential/commercial zones and designating very generous volumes of family-sized units in high and medium density developments to restrict the optimization of development projects into tiny bachelor accommodation units and ultra-spacious penthouses.
In short, make medium density housing in walkable communities and stop transferring wealth away from those communities.
- natchy 6y agowould rather have mixed zoning, resulting in more distributed "city centers". I don't like big cities, but would love a more connected small town.
- burlesona 6y agoI'm ambivalent to your policy prescription; it might or might not work well in practice, but it does sound like it would work. But I would hardly call that easy, when you need to undo generations of legislation, business convention, and nearly the entire structure of the financial markets, in order to accomplish all that.