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I think we plausibly have a genuine glut of offices that no one wants or will ever want again. My argument is that the situation for residences is completely di
by closeparen 3y ago
I think we plausibly have a genuine glut of offices that no one wants or will ever want again. My argument is that the situation for residences is completely different. Even if urban neighborhoods were only half as popular next year, we would still need to produce quite a bit more of them.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoWe should be building urban housing like fucking crazy, but we also need to fix issues that make cities less desirable to live in. I firmly believe that cities have become undesirable because we have allowed suburbs to dictate their growth trajectory. Rather than building walkable cities for those that live there, some cities have carved interstate highways through their hearts in order to appease suburban commuters. This leads to all kinds of problems with livability that makes people not want to live in cities.
- rayiner 3y agoIf we don’t fix the things that make cities undesirable, we can’t get the political support needed to allow more places to urbanize.