The design failure of suburbia
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- mikotondria30
nah - people will just have to adapt - either live within biking distance of work, carpool, company bus, public bus, motorbike.
The suburbs are not the new ghetto, they're the new countryside.
I fully expect to see all my neighbors using half their land to grow veggies, walking more, using the local park and exercise trailways more.
The suburbs were lonely places where all anyone did was drive to and away from. Now people will actually have no choice but to use, and therefore become interested in the facilities and management of, the spaces within a mile of their homes. I foresee more: local kids getting to know each other and playing outside, parents and neighbors doing more locally - parties, cookouts, bulk buying, more interest in what's within walking distance rather than 20minutes drive away - At the moment, American cities are tangled webs of essentially isolated individuals and fractured communities of people that expend waaaaay too much gas just to operate. I lived in Phoenix for a good while, and my closest friends were 50miles across town. It took nearly an hour to get there, during which time I passed thousands of people doing exactly the same thing in the other directions. Hundreds of gallons of gas expended, unnecessarily.
People will begin moving closer to their friends and families, and making new connections closer to home.
We played golf on the moon ffs, burning less gasoline we be a walk in the (newly revitalised) park.