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Strong Towns makes the case that there is just too much infrastructure in the US and the level of sprawl that we are built at is economically unsustainable in t
by spoonjim 5y ago
Strong Towns makes the case that there is just too much infrastructure in the US and the level of sprawl that we are built at is economically unsustainable in the long run.
- dahfizz 5y agoExcept for a very generous interpretation of "the long run", I don't buy this. We pay more than enough money in taxes to maintain our infrastructure. The problem is governments misallocating and wasting funds.
- phonebanshee 5y agoMostly to corporate subsidies labeled "defense" spending.
- ars 5y agoThe world Strong Towns wants is emotionally unsustainable. Maybe there are people who can handle it, but I would go insane in the dense cities it suggests. Let the people who like dense towns live there, and stop trying to tell the rest of the people how to live. Strong Towns also tries to creates cities where no one from the outside ever comes in, since there's no way of getting there (no parking, not enough roads). People in large cities also like to "get away" during the summer - but there will be nowhere to go in his world.
- spoonjim 5y agoNobody’s telling you can’t live in a rural area. Just don’t ask me to pay for a road and a water main out to reach you from the city. Get a Jeep and dig a well and move if the water dries up.