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Some suburbs are nice. Many are awful, like the ones in Austin, TX. Soulless.
by bluSCALE4 4y ago
Some suburbs are nice. Many are awful, like the ones in Austin, TX. Soulless.
- miguelazo 4y agoAlmost all of the new ones are like that. Go look around Phoenix. And they look "nice" for a brief period. Just wait until the legacy costs catch up with them. If you go look at the older master-planned communities in far-flung suburbs, they look as bad if not worse than any urban blight.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> Just wait until the legacy costs catch up with them. How long do we have to wait for that? Going on 120 years here, still doing okay.
- HEmanZ 4y agoA pre-war suburb is an entirely different thing than a burb built in the 80s. Generally, urbanists love the prewar burb in America, their criticisms are of the postwar burbs.
- rootusrootus 4y agoWhat is the infrastructure difference?
- HEmanZ 4y agoThe one sentence gist is that they were built to be more walkable (not everyone had a car) and people used land more diversely (most of our crazy zoning wasn’t invented yet). How it looks in practice is a fun rabbit hole to go down.
- miguelazo 4y agoAlso fewer fugly prefab commercial buildings and strip malls hosting lame chain businesses that send all of their profits out of town.