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sure, and i'd posit that that's also a consequence of our love affair with cars. cars encourage urban sprawl (there's really no such thing as rural sprawl). per
by clairity 5y ago
sure, and i'd posit that that's also a consequence of our love affair with cars. cars encourage urban sprawl (there's really no such thing as rural sprawl). perhaps a land value tax (with tax deferral until sale for non-wealthy primary home owners) can help us find an efficient optimum, something that would encourage urban density while not discouraging rural expanse.
- riversflow 5y ago>I’d posit that that’s also a consequence of our love affair with cars. I’ve always operated under the assumption that there is massive selection bias in the United States for people who like more personal space. Never considered it was part of car culture.
- clairity 5y agothe car, particularly for americans but also in other countries (mainland china being a prominently rising example), literally embodies individualistic expression, expansive freedom, and bold adventurism, as 50+ years of tv car ads can attest. that's not to pass an overly harsh judgement on any of those things, but rather, to say the balance is out of whack and has been for a while. in LA, outside of a very few of the oldest core districts, even our supposedly sleepy neighborhood streets are often 40+ feet wide (note that cars are typically 6-7 feet wide), with 15 feet of public easement, and 15+ feet of mandatory setbacks, so urban land use gets out of whack real quicklike that way.