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>I’m pro densification but highly against sprawl. My natural inclination is to agree with this statement, but I'd like to hear your rationale. Can you elaborat

• csee 5y ago
  Sprawl is environmentally unfriendly (transport distance and construction material usage), financially expensive (sparse service provision, roads), and it excludes poor people from the city center (since everyone has to compete to be within 15 minutes)
  • bobthepanda 5y ago
    also, it's actually bad for public health as well. Walking rates have declined significantly over the past few decades due to sprawl making it impossible to walk anywhere.
• mint2 5y ago
  For starters When has sprawl not caused a reliance on cars? Eaten up large tracts of natural land with cookie cutter homes, pavement, and non-native office park type landscaping? Encouraged McMansions over appropriately sized homes with all the extra energy consumption etc those require? That’s just getting started. It’s not location dependent. Phoenix and Vegas or wherever are doing themselves no favors by building out rather than up.