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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
by 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 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.