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BTW, for people looking for other examples of how to grow, who might not like the idea of Houston's sprawl, I've always liked this article: https://www.sightli

• wonder_er 6y ago
  That is a lovely article! Thanks for sharing. I feel like the US would be better off looking at cities around the world that are pleasent, and pattern-matching off of that. Vienna is beautiful. We should do more of what Vienna does. Clearly tweaking the US's "process" is just moving deck chairs on the titanic.
  • davidw 6y ago
    Yeah, Vienna is very nice! It doesn't feel like a "Big City" at all. I'm partial to the Montreal example in the article - it feels the most 'human scale' to me - but everyone has different tastes.
  • Mountain_Skies 6y ago
    I've never been to Vienna so I can't speak to it but my experience in traveling around the world is that many cities have incredible central cities but also have sprawling medium to high density suburbs that everyone turns a blind eye to. The low density automobile focused suburbs of North America might not exist around those cities but the denser suburbs still have poor livability, especially compared to the central cities they surround.
    • davidw 6y ago
      I lived in a suburb of Padova, Italy, for many years. Still quite walkable and nice, even if it didn't have the old, historic buildings.
• rayiner 6y ago
  Yes, housing isn’t a problem in a city whose population is the same today as it was in 1935, in a country that’s projected to slowly shrink over the next century.
  • MrMan 6y ago
    The whole population of the US is not growing, there are just a few places where there is growth.
    • rayiner 6y ago
      The whole US population is growing, as are most states. (Although California and New York shrank this past year.)
• Shivetya 6y ago
  however as the pandemic has shown us, we may as a whole starting to realize how much your location doesn't matter in technology jobs which will go a good way to freeing up more space for affordable housing in metropolitan areas. the real reckoning to come is all these tax authorities looking to make up the losses from the exodus and use of facilities in town. a lot was built up not to just serve the population but to reward political friends by making sure they had the properties and contracts to build and even run businesses in town. that gravy train for the tax coffers and political campaigns won't go down without a fight. one faster way of building out new housing is not rezoning existing areas of housing but going after areas that are not currently zoned for any housing. especially true are larger commercial districts that have collapsed or seen sufficient change to where most businesses up and left. plus removing the requirements that only union labor can be used will help as well in addition to allow hiring people who need work but are not attractive to union employers (most of these rules were originally put in place in the North stop cheaper labor cost black worker construction companies from getting a foothold - go look it up)