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I want to make clear, since everyone appears to have taken issue with what I said. My ideal model is not suburbia - thats what “LA” is to me. Nor is it NYC a c
by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I want to make clear, since everyone appears to have taken issue with what I said.
My ideal model is not suburbia - thats what “LA” is to me. Nor is it NYC a city that has grown way beyond breaking even with return to scale
My ideal model is, for all its problems, Thessaloniki or Bilbao. That is smaller, forgotten European cities.
There your Dr.’s office can be a short walk from home because 6 story buildings are in fact very high density. If need be most inhabitants can walk downtown, but dont need to because public transport can be plentiful and cheap because the city is dimensionally small.
- vineyardmike 5y agothis is what most of SF is like, outside FiDi
- barry-cotter 5y ago> Nor is it NYC a city that has grown way beyond breaking even with return to scale There is no way to support this statement on any economic grounds. If New York City wasn't almost as committed to not building as San Francisco it could be have a far greater population. The constant run up in property prices shows that even with the efforts to stop people moving they still want to. If Tokyo can grow 50% in a decade in a country with declining population NYC could grow much more. People want to live in NYC. Let them.
- AmpsterMan 5y agoBilbao is one of those cities I would love to live in. Pre-Pandemic, I spent a considerable amount of brain power trying to figure out how I can migrate.