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As I see it people in the U.S. can live in spread out cities because of cars. If cars were somehow to be made undesirable then we’d want to live in more compac
by syops 5y ago
As I see it people in the U.S. can live in spread out cities because of cars. If cars were somehow to be made undesirable then we’d want to live in more compact spaces.
- rootusrootus 5y agoUrbanization in the US has consistently increased throughout the entire time the car has been in existence. > If cars were somehow to be made undesirable then we’d want to live in more compact spaces. Poor people, mostly. Wealthy people could continue to live where they want. Forcibly making car ownership more undesirable seems like an extremely regressive choice. I would rather see the trend towards mega-cities reverse. Not to rural, but to small & medium sized cities that are more livable, which are then connected by good transportation.
- syops 5y agoA livable city means a city that is not car centric. Such is my opinion. Far too much land and resources are used for parking spaces and those spaces are largely unused. Our cities are hostile to pedestrians as well as our law enforcement. Our car centric culture is regressive due to the large cost of car ownership, mandatory land usage for parking spaces and subsidies to pay for roads. https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-criminalization-of-walking/ https://www.illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-cr... https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-citys-land-is-used-for-parking-spaces https://www.fastcompany.com/40441392/see-just-how-much-of-a-...