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> We must increase the density of our cities. We could also try to make a few new cities, instead of ten thousand new suburbs
by simonsarris 6y ago
> We must increase the density of our cities.
We could also try to make a few new cities, instead of ten thousand new suburbs
- ajmurmann 6y agoWould these cities have the density of suburbs or be real cities?
- farnsworth 6y agoWe already have cities, we are just refusing to build new housing in them.
- ajmurmann 5y agoAnd villages and towns that could become cities
- rendang 6y agoThe West Coast could use a new metropolis somewhere near SW Oregon, to fill in the gap between the Bay and Portland.
- reducesuffering 6y agoThere's a reason one doesn't exist and that is because of terrain. It's thick mountain passes there from Redding to Eugene. It's much more geographically feasible to expand Sacramento or Eugene north.
- asdff 6y agoNo reason to scar fresh land when we have plenty of land that is already well scarred, which could just have things like apartments over two stories tall legalized.
- ajmurmann 5y agoOne more comment on this, since I now heard the exact same point from a friend and talked more about this: we don't build cities. We build villages that grow into towns, that grow into cities. There are very few exceptions like Brazilia, which has lots of issues. Generally this to me is indicative that we are thinking wrong about cities. Cities aren't like massive buildings, but more like organisms. Three best results are achieved if we allow them to grow somewhat organically. I recommend the book Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities or the short podcast of the same name.