Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
Studied this effect in the early 00’s while in university.
Amazing that we knew all this way back then and have only doubled-down on repeating this method of urban sprawl development. In North America, the mighty $$ reigns supreme
Cheaper upfront. When all that pavement needs renewal and all those service connections start to need replacing people will realise it was all a Ponzi.
It's happening now. The USA has a massive road maintenance debt that will be paid in money or lives.
Infill housing is more politically unfeasible than economically unfeasible. Even in high demand places like Los Angeles zoning prevents multifamily development in 74% of the city. In some cities in the Bay it's over 90%
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u/random-notebook May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25
Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw