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There's nothing curious about it. This article is about the United States and people are referring to suburbs in the U.S. If you're not familiar with U.S. subu
by Kranar 6y ago
There's nothing curious about it. This article is about the United States and people are referring to suburbs in the U.S.
If you're not familiar with U.S. suburbs, their history, and how they were explicitly designed... that's fine, but it's kind of condescending to talk like those of us who are aware of U.S. suburbs have some "curious" and bizarre idea about them.
- chrisseaton 6y agoThe bit they're missing is that it's not an inherent property of suburbs. The problem isn't suburbs, it's how some suburbs have been done. It can be done in America. I've seen small, walkable towns there. In fact isn't America famous for its walkable small towns? Small-town America. You can even find them near where people think they're impossible - like the small coastal towns in the Bay Area such as Half Moon Bay. Completely walkable. And to repeat the parent comment back to them: > It makes me rather depressed knowing what people are missing out on, what life is capable of being like. You can say the same about their own view of suburbs!
- alanbernstein 6y agoI think you're reading the term "suburb" too literally, as an outlying municipality of a major city. In fact, when Americans use the term "suburb", especially in this context, it means, by definition, developments with sprawling, car-centric design.