Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Aug 08 2022 22:36:58

 Sp>  bo> Designing cities so that we are forced to sink literal months and yea
 Sp>  bo> our leaves moving back and forth was one of the colossally stupid mis
 Sp> 
 Sp> I don't think that was done with either design or intent.  Its called
 Sp> urban sprawl.  Until very recently we've (Australia) haven't been good
 Sp> at higher density living. Every man and dog wanted his own home on a
 Sp> quarter acre block, that and ongoing land releases at the fringes by the
 Sp> peanuts in charge have gotten us to where we are now.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

It nevertheless did happen.  Houses are built with roads, but lack public transport.  Somewhere in the planning is the assumption that the car will be the first, the primary mode of transport and anything else a bonus.  Every new suburb assumes use of a car.  Some of these new surburbs don't even really cater to pedestrians.

Urban sprawl itself was made possible only because the car became ubiquitous, the "suburban" mode of transport.

The suburban ideal was a manufactured want, a Post War design, a promise of escape from what was then dysfunctional urban areas.  Things are changing where some younger people are eschewing the surburban "dream" for a more urban lifestyle, close to cafes and bars and culture and entertainment.

Then you have many European towns which were designed around a pedestrian life, more human friendly.

I did was the suburban dream when I was younger, but it is in reality a nightmare.  

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