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> Suburbs are not providing value to their nearby cities They're providing people: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/31/21-31.pdf https://www
by Tade0 2y ago
> Suburbs are not providing value to their nearby cities
They're providing people:
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/31/21-31.pdf https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/31/21-31....
It appears that all around the world, whatever we do, we just can't coax people to have children in dense city centres.
In extreme cases like in South Korea, where Seoul is basically cannibalizing the rest of the country, it leads to a demographic collapse. I think this is a point that is not mentioned often enough.
- piva00 2y agoSuburbs here in Stockholm are a very different beast than suburbs in the USA. I live in a suburb of Stockholm and lived in a few others previously, the model for a lot of them is to have a small centre with shops, grocers, healthcare, a mass transit station, sports facilities, culture centres, with dense housing around the station with increasingly less dense housing towards the edges of the suburb: smaller apartment buildings, followed by row houses and villas towards the edges. This is much more sustainable model than American suburbia, to the point I've never required a car to live here. In the USA, Canada, Australia and other extremely car-dependent societies this is not the model for a suburb.