Nah. If we take the US as an example they have rampant NIMBYism, a suburbanism ideology that isn’t sustainable financially (or ecologically or socially, for that matter), and rather strict zoning, with the worst stemming from the city of Euclid, and thus being named “euclidean zoning”.
If you’re up for some videos, then StrongTowns, CityNerd and NotJustBikes all talk about this at length.
Yes between the low density and refusal to build transit, which go hand in hand, suburban car dependant planning has destroyed the livibility and affordability of many cities.
It’s the neoliberal fever dream that unregulated market mechanisms can build a better world. It’s the socioeconomic theory that unfettered psychopathy is a guiding light, and the high priests of this religion pray the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t a train. (Or that they died wealthy of old age before things ever got too bad for them.)
Nah. If we take the US as an example they have rampant NIMBYism, a suburbanism ideology that isn’t sustainable financially (or ecologically or socially, for that matter), and rather strict zoning, with the worst stemming from the city of Euclid, and thus being named “euclidean zoning”.
If you’re up for some videos, then StrongTowns, CityNerd and NotJustBikes all talk about this at length.
Yes between the low density and refusal to build transit, which go hand in hand, suburban car dependant planning has destroyed the livibility and affordability of many cities.
This from the thn Australian Prime Minister in 1972. We did the exact opposite and now have a 2nd rate American system
It’s the neoliberal fever dream that unregulated market mechanisms can build a better world. It’s the socioeconomic theory that unfettered psychopathy is a guiding light, and the high priests of this religion pray the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t a train. (Or that they died wealthy of old age before things ever got too bad for them.)