Nothing more demonstrates the central planning focus of Leftists more than a discution of suburbia.
The idea that one might not want to live or work in a large, dense city irritates the hell out of them.
The “planners” won’t be happy until the working and middle classes all live in 1970s Soviet-style crackerbox high-rise apartments, walking or bicycling to work in the rain and snow, while they enjoy penthouses and fly to their country dachas on the weekends, hiking in the woods that once used to be a suburb. (We won’t be allowed in the woods, of course, only the nomenklatura will be. That wouldn’t be environmentally sustainable.)
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“New Urban Theorist” Sheesh. It sounds like the name of a punk rock band...
The death of the suburbs was always some pipe dream of radical environmentalists and “creative class” residents of artsy city neighborhoods with a superiority complex.
If anything can kill them it will be the forced relocation of Section 8 residents into McMansions, “to make things fair”.
In your dreams, you acedemic wack job.
Most Americans don't want to be cooped up in densely packed, crime-infested, smelly, noisy cities.
Even those who live there would get out, if they could.
BS! Where I live (Buffalo area), its the opposite.
The urban core of cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland become hollowed-out, such that now people are applying to farm, raise chickens or keep bees in parts of these abandoned cities. The “urban core” is reverting to farmland, while the “suburbs” are the only areas still growing.
The clowns need to realize that its not their leftist fantasies that matter, but culture that drives how/where people live.
Only in their dreams.
I don’t want to live like a rat.
I think the suburbs expended too fast in the 2000s and the distant ones will suffer as a result of over supply. People aren’t going to move to the crime, but they will stay in the suburbs closer to town while the pop-up cookie cutter developments in the sticks has been and will continue to lose all of its value. In other words, the article is half right.
High energy prices affect the rural areas the most. They are notoriously conservative areas, why high energy prices are liked by the urban green/commie/statist.
They’ve been predicting this since 1978....
Suburbs are in serious trouble. First with fuel costs expected to skyrocket, homes in the suburbs which necessitate long commutes are going to go unsold. This will only further dampen home prices. Enter the section 8 filth / welfare trash who will fill the void with their govt money. Then an explosion of crime and the collapse of quality of life will commence. This cycle has been occurring since 2008. Ignore it at one’s peril.