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Books you can check out if you want to know more about urbanism:
Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles Marohn
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
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USA: Ńomes up with the worst urban planning ever
Arab Emirates: "Write that down, write that down!"
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Living in the city you have all the convenience and none of the space, living in the country, you have all of the space and none of the convenience. In the suburbs, you get neither.
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i once heard:
"building extra lanes to highways to tackle traffic issues is the same as having bees on your balcony and to tackle that problem you put additional flowers"
i think that discribes the problem very visual.
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It's interesting you mention Houston, because the city found out the hard way how suburbs can be destructive. On 23 August 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall at the Texas gulf coast, causing widespread flooding, with Houston suffering the biggest and deepest flooding, roughly 25 to 30% of the city was underwater, and it was later determined to be linked to the suburbs. Prior to the hurricane, Houston was surrounded by flood plains, these natural features were useful at absorbing water from storms, however, by 2017 these meadows were bulldozed and paved over to make way for new suburbs, effectively compromising the flood plains' ability to prevent flooding, once Harvey made landfall, there was no where for the water to go, but directly into the city. This is the other way suburbs have destroyed the US, for they are built on natural habitats that make things hazardous for residents and nearby communities, to make matters worse, the developers knew what could happen, but were allowed to build anyway, if Hurricane Harvey taught anything, suburbs should not be allowed to build in naturally vulnerable areas, because mother nature is a harsh disciplinarian.
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My siblings and I were visiting my parents last week, and we literally couldnāt go anywhere or do anything because there were only two cars, and our parents needed them. You canāt walk anywhere, because thereās nowhere to walk to, and thereās certainly no public transportation. Being in an American suburb is very close to being on house arrest, and itās by design.
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"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin
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The sad thing is that so many of us have grown up living in suburbs that we think it's normal and even desirable. Almost difficult to imagine even living any different way.
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Brooklyn is what American cities could have, should have, looked like if not for the suburban sprawl. Medium-to-High density housing with mixed zoning, public spaces with room for communal activities, functional public transport network, "mom and pops" stores and restaurants scattered all throughout. New York in general, but especially Brooklyn and Harlem, is a great example of the benefit of neighborhood communities, of having this group of people who care and support one another, who do things together. Communal identity is so important for mental well being!
It's only in places like Harlem and Brooklyn that you can have stories like a guy running a food cart for 20 years get people donating money to cover his life saving surgery.
You can't have that in a sprawling suburb. You can't have a real community in the suburbs. You are not a true neighborhood. You're just a group of people that happen to live in that area.
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as someone who can see my local grocery store from my balcony, the idea of having to drive more than 15 minutes to a store is insane
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"Imagine living in a dystopian future. - America"
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Correction: in most of Europe we can walk to an affordable grocery store - otherwise it is not considered very accessible and quite a lot of people get upset, although other stores like clothing and small electronics typically requires a metro/tram/bus/bike trip, and something like furniture or washing machine may need a train trip + ordering a delivery van. Schools are accessible by walking, though universities require dorms unless you happen to live in the same city.
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When you watch videos like this you can really appreciate living in Europe, without a car, having couple of grocery stores, bus lines, tram lines, pizzerias and other amenities within 5-10 minutes walk distance. I don't even have a driving license because I never felt a need of having car.
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As a Brazilian, that was the first thing that really felt off for me when I spent a semester studying in London-Canada, which is a city that takes a lot of lessons from American infraestructure from what I could tell.
I know people don't think highly of Brazil, but being able to just ride me bike to places or just have a short walk to the pub or the local pizzaria to meet with the boys makes such a huge difference for me.
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I remember when i bought my first house it was located in an area that was mixed zone. the bank tried to argue with me that the prospect of a store opening up near my house could hurt the property value. My only response was "why would i not want a store in easy walking distance? sign me up!"
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My family is American, but we have lived in urban Germany for the past 10 years. We visited our family in suburban Washington, DC and suburban Pittsburgh last summer. Afterward, our teenage daughter said that she could never live like that again.
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also as someone who grew up in a city with a pretty good amount of freedom, i think suburbs must be actual hell for kids, and i don't even think most people realize because they're so used to suburbs they can't imagine anything else.
from age 10-18 i lived in bangkok and we lived about a 5-10 minute walk from a metro station, a skytrain station (basically elevated metro but it was called bts or skytrain) and a boat station (there are boats that run along a water management system/basically exposed sewer). when i was 12, a new mall opened up, also 10 minutes away and it was connected by pedestrian walkways to the bts and metro stations. my school was a 15 minute walk away (but i took the bus mostly bc my parents didn't want me out walking in bad weather - it look like an hour though bc of traffic lmao) and when i started going to tutors after school or on weekends they were also just 15-20 minutes away. when i was 12/13 ish i started skipping taking the bus home on some days and would go to the mall with my friends or walk down to one of the cafes near my school to get something to eat. if i wanted to see a movie but my parents were busy, i would just go on my own to one of the malls i could get to in like 20 minutes using public transit and watch it on my own. if i wanted snacks, there were literally 3 different convenience stores within a 5 minute walk from my house (one was literally like a minute away lol) that i could go to on my own without bothering my parents (well, i had to ask them for money sometimes, but that's it). sometimes someone would plan a party at a bowling alley or to have a meal together at a restaurant and we would just let our parents know where we're going and who we'll be with and arrange our own transport (either walking or a motorcycle taxi (these things are so much fun lol) or public transport or some combination of all of them). i had pretty strict parents but they would let me do all this stuff because it was safe (also sometimes i just didn't tell them lol)
contrast that with being a kid in a car-dependent suburb. you literally can't go anywhere without your parents because you're too young to drive. want to go to a friends house? well unless that friend lives in the same suburb as you, you can't. want to get some snacks? better have your parents drive you around. same for going to the park or watching a movie or going to a party or going to school or going to any shop or going to have a meal with your friends. literally any activity you can think of that you can't do from home, you need your parents to drive you around. that's until you're old enough to drive yourself around, and then either your parents need to buy you your own car or you need to share with your parents so you STILL can't do anything if your parents are using the car. or i guess you as a 16 year old can try to make enough money on the shitty minimum wage jobs that you need a car to get to to be able to buy your own car somehow. plus this is more stressful for the parents. when i wanted snacks i could just tell my parents i'm going to the shop and be back in 10 minutes with all my stuff. there were two coffee shops within 10 minutes of me and i used to go there all the time to get interesting beverages or muffins as a teenager. my parents didn't have to do anything apart from giving me an allowance and just allowing me to step outside the apartment unsupervised. in the suburbs, if your kids want something and you think it's fine/want them to have it you literally have to get in your car and drive all the way there and do it yourself. americans always say that suburbs are a great place to raise kids but they're literally a terrible place for the kids and for the parents. this type of reliance on the people who are driving the cars is frustrating for everyone involved.
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As an American, I can tell you that the American Dream (TM) is actually strong. That dream is making your boss's boss's boss very rich while you toil and suffer and blame everyone for your misery except the people causing it.
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Its so weird how I could spend my whole childhood in Canada and think I lived in one of the best places in the world. but after 15 years of travelling and 10 years living in Germany, coming back home felt like I entering a soulless dystopia.
I feel so bad for the millions of people who will grow up thinking that this is the "normal" way to live
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So, I have the anxious behavior of someone who was raised food insecure, but with food, medicine, internet/phone/connectivity, water, toilets, ect. A large part of that is because I was raised in the suburbs, usually without reliable transportation. I am terrified of being in a suburb, because if you need something, you have to drive for miles to get to the nearest corner, grocery, or convenience store.
I live on a small but decently developed stretch of stroad now in an apartment, and while the stroad sucks for all stroad reasons, I live smack dab next to a walmart and two pharmacies, and can walk to about five fast food places, five banks, even more restaurants, and even in a pinch, an urgent care just half a mile away with sidewalks the entire way. My security anxiety is still there, but it's gone down like 80%.
I legitimately have nightmares to this day of getting trapped in a suburb without transportation. I am never ever living in one again.
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