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I have no idea what “human scale housing” means, but single family housing is not a threat to wilderness in the US. There is a ton of wilderness in the US, and
by throwaway894345 4y ago
I have no idea what “human scale housing” means, but single family housing is not a threat to wilderness in the US. There is a ton of wilderness in the US, and it is far more constrained by agriculture.
- cpursley 4y agoMixed use development where you can walk or bike to nearly all daily needs (work, grocery, kids school) within 20 or so mins.
- bombcar 4y agoWork is usually the kicker, many suburbs are actually quite bikable if you're willing to bike on the street. What people really want is their work, stores, school of choice within walking/biking distance, which is harder to accomplish.
- Tiktaalik 4y agoIt's a geometry problem. SFH takes up too much space. You're absolutely correct that there's heaps of wilderness in the USA, but the more SFH there is, the more sprawl that is required, which means that that wilderness is further and further away. I'd rather get to the wilderness faster and not have to drive through hours and hours of sprawling SFH suburbs.
- throwaway894345 4y agoGeometry has a solution! If you want to be closer to nature, move closer to nature. That seems a lot more reasonable than insisting that everyone around you uproot and reorganize. I'm strongly biased toward letting people live how they want so long as they aren't harming people (and I don't think "living between urbanites and nature" constitutes harm).
- Tiktaalik 4y ago> I'm strongly biased toward letting people live how they want Then people shouldn't be allowed to ban their neighbours from building whatever housing they want.