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I remember about 8 years ago I read a very interesting report (Bloomberg?) that said basically over 50% of American cities have overbuilt highly inefficient inf

I remember about 8 years ago I read a very interesting report (Bloomberg?) that said basically over 50% of American cities have overbuilt highly inefficient infrastructure and cannot even by greatly raising taxes continue to maintain them. I think it called them zombie cities or something like that. The only choice for the distant suburbs will be to come up with some sort of self sustaining infrastructure (old farmhouse style) or abandon the suburbs and move closer to the city.

tankenmate 5y ago
The prime example of overbuilt highly inefficient (and unsafe) infrastructure that comes to mind for me is the "Stroad"[0]; it's somewhat like a comment that Elon Musk made about optimising something that shouldn't be there. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM