Many North American cities are locked in a damaging cycle, whereby new suburban expansion is needed to subsidize the infrastructure costs of old development. The pattern has left many municipalities t...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:Oct 19th, 2021
Ok, so I live on a “stroad” and I didn’t even know it. I have had such frustration with the neighborhood I live in and struggled to express why. The concept of a “stroad” is exactly the word I was missing. Luckily, I’m moving soon! To a place with streets! Down with stroads!
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bigfoot_skeptic recommended:Oct 17th, 2021
Highlights: Suburbs don't collect enough tax revenue to pay for the maintenance of their infrastructure. Nice, walkable cities that we vacation at in Europe and Asia are effectively illegal to build in most of North America due to zoning laws and minimum parking requirements.
pwithamOct 21st, 2021
@bigfoot_skeptic A few words that really bring it home are ‘people buy things not cars.’