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> 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 ago
  A 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 ago
    What is the infrastructure difference?
    • HEmanZ 4y ago
      The 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 ago
      Also fewer fugly prefab commercial buildings and strip malls hosting lame chain businesses that send all of their profits out of town.