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The reason why American cities are low density is because they were built for cars. Or destroyed for cars. But American car-dependent suburbia is not financially sustainable. Car infrastructure isn’t just absolutely miserable, it’s also extremely inefficient in terms of both cost and space. Self-driving cars or electric cars won’t solve this. America needs to learn how to build cities properly again.
Everyone shrieks that we can’t just tear down cities for public infrastructure and higher density, but completely refuse to acknowledge that that’s EXACTLY what we did for cars.
The reason why American cities are low density is because they were built for cars. Or destroyed for cars. But American car-dependent suburbia is not financially sustainable. Car infrastructure isn’t just absolutely miserable, it’s also extremely inefficient in terms of both cost and space. Self-driving cars or electric cars won’t solve this. America needs to learn how to build cities properly again.
This.
Everyone shrieks that we can’t just tear down cities for public infrastructure and higher density, but completely refuse to acknowledge that that’s EXACTLY what we did for cars.
They weren’t built for cars, they were built for single family homes with yards. Cars are just required for that level of density.
A lot of people don’t want to live in cities, because it means giving up the house and yard.
That isn’t a horrible opinion, but it does drive up prices near cities because of inefficient land use.