Suburban Nation

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1. MarkLowensteinDec 2023
   Whatever you don't pay for in money, you pay for in your time.

   I was pointed to this phenomenon by the book Suburban Nation thirty years ago, and it continues to explain so much.

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2. ___rubidium___Mar 2022
   I'm currently reading Suburban Nation by Duany et al, and they talk about this exact thing - how the most desirable neighborhoods in old US cities like Boston or Washington are the old, dense, mixed-use parts of town. The book is twenty years old but it is still a good introduction to some of the problems of American-style suburbia.
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3. matttproudAug 2021
   If you want an introduction into the policy side, read:

   Duany, et al.’s Suburban Nation. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477506

   Kunstler‘s Geography of Nowhere. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Geography-Of-Nowhere/...

   It is extremely dismal but also theoretically fixable for future development.

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4. matttproudJul 2021
   > think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans.

   You should give Howard Kunstler‘s The Geography of Nowhere and Duany, et al.‘s Suburban Nation a read. (There are other good ones, too). They’d readily dispel the timing notion you suggest. Rather this bland outcome is clearly from adopting civil engineering and planning codes intentionally.

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5. matttproudJul 2021
   You should give Howard Kunstler‘s The Geography of Nowhere and Duany, et al.‘s Suburban Nation a read. (There are other good ones, too).

   These will contextual like what an overhaul of the planning and codes process should look like.

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6. spagoopJul 2020
   Andres Duany is the architect/city planner giving this presentation. If you're interested in systems design, especially through the lens of city planning and architecture, he's an interesting character to follow.

   Also, he and his firm wrote a book called "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream", a good read!

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