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The difference is that it won't take much space to replace the suburbs with low-car or no-car living. Doing infill housing in metropolises is many many times m
by epistasis 3y ago
The difference is that it won't take much space to replace the suburbs with low-car or no-car living. Doing infill housing in metropolises is many many times more efficient in terms of land use, infrastructure demands, etc.
We don't need to make new cities from scratch at all, we simply need to allow gradual redevelopment of the urban cores.
- Muromec 3y agoWhy replace suburbs if you can put a tram line or urban train and upzone parts of it close to the stations.
- epistasis 3y agoExactly! Merely allowing a tiny fraction of already developed land to be redeveloped at what were natural rates 120 years ago would mean that the suburbs would be almost completely untouched while those who want something different can also get what they want out of life.