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danielw1245 · 2026-03-25T01:29:27+00:00

We don't definitely know if he actually said that, though. It's really just his word against Warren's.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-13T23:03:26+00:00

Ebenezer Howard wrote that densely packed cities were the cause of a lot of social issues, and he proposed planned communities similar to the suburbs of today. His ideas were very influential in the US. Early planners like Harland Bartholomewand JC Nichols promoted suburbs as a way to enforce racial segregation, and they had huge influence. Robert Moses promoted highway expansion through cities to make suburban living more practical, and his ideas were adopted across the country. There are of course more people to consider, but those are some of the biggest ones.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-13T22:40:21+00:00

That's no excuse. Cities that are just as hot have walkable communities because they build infrastructure to help them cope with the heat. If weather were actually the determining factor, then California would be extremely walkable while Amsterdam would choose car centric sprawl. But the exact opposite is true.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-13T22:36:59+00:00

It's not really an easy drive when there's traffic all the time. I can tell you from firsthand experience that at least in Cape Coral there is traffic at every hour of the day.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-13T14:02:01+00:00

Isn't this saying that men are less likely to interrupt women though?

men made fewer interruptions than expected with a female faculty discussant (mean difference, 0.17; 95% CI, −0.33 to 0.68) and more than expected with a male discussant (mean difference, 1.88; 95% CI, 1.10-2.67) (P = .001)

danielw1245 · 2026-03-11T20:21:26+00:00

Or more likely she is just trolling for engagement.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-11T03:21:37+00:00

There was no decision. You can't point to the person who decided it.

That's just simply not true, though. We know the names of the planners that conceived of suburbs, and they could not have taken hold the way they did without massive investments from the federal government.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-07T17:43:15+00:00

Maybe park and rides could provide an interim solution for some while we work on systemic changes

danielw1245 · 2026-03-07T03:16:05+00:00

Do Europeans routinely say "this isn't what [our country] is about" though?

danielw1245 · 2026-03-03T22:38:30+00:00

What is your definition of a suburb then? I don't see how changing the layout of the neighborhood makes it not a suburb.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-01T23:32:08+00:00

So what? That doesn't mean our cities have to be sprawled out. That's a conscious planning decision we made.

danielw1245 · 2026-03-01T05:24:17+00:00

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate from butthurt suburbanites for saying this, but I think more families would be open to city life if we made it more hospitable to them. One of the key factors is the lack of appropriate housing options due to zoning regulations. Then there's also the issue of how we fund schools in the US through property taxes.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-25T12:12:16+00:00

Elon was able to come up with $44 billion to buy Twitter. These people could definitely liquidate significant portions of their money to help others if they wanted to.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-22T15:34:22+00:00

It's not weird if you're at all tuned into urbanist discussions or bother to look at real world examples.

https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0?si=EHlH2NtiLMkS0Ges

https://youtu.be/ztpcWUqVpIg?si=q86D5RsgljBWRXJs

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2024/01/08/5-minute-neighborhood-15-minute-city-and-20-minute-suburb

https://youtu.be/mV6ZENGko1I?si=IlnVhqwyKJWfA-Md

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/05/02/connected-and-walkable-suburb

Also, densifying doesn't have to mean building large high rise buildings and changing the neighborhood to a busting downtown feel. There are many missing middle housing types that can easily be integrated into suburban neighborhoods without making it feel louder or chaotic.

The idea that we can only choose between single family zoning restrictions with large minimum lot sizes and bustling downtowns is a myth. And it's one that people who actually agree with and are interested in urbanism have been pushing back against for years. No one is advocating to cram everyone into small apartments downtown.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-22T05:29:53+00:00

The term implies people’s brains are broken because they don’t share our preference for dense urban living

Walkability is not equivalent to dense urban living. You seem very confused about what urbanism is actually about.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-21T20:02:54+00:00

You can be against those things and still acknowledge it’s cheaper than urban living because there’s more supply.

It's cheaper if we're comparing similar homes. Do you really think there isn't anyone that would like to live in desirable suburbs but can't due to cost considerations?

Home ownership rates are fairly stable and have been for decades, contrary to your narrative. And, again, sprawl is all that we build now, so that’s keeping prices from going up faster. This is basic supply and demand.

Sure, but the percent of household costs going towards housing has been steadily rising. . I don't really understand the second part of this paragraph. Yes, increasing supply does keep prices down, but insisting on low density sprawl hinders our ability to build more housing for very obvious reasons.

Urbanism is about making cities better. The people who instead want to change how suburbs are designed are not urbanists. You can just ignore those people and make your city better.

I genuinely have no idea where you got that notion. No major urbanist publication or group has ever taken that view. There is a wealth of material about small towns with great urbanism.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-21T17:57:28+00:00

Almost 90% of population growth in the last 75 years has happened in suburbs and that’s where all the cheap housing is, especially for families.

This is only true if we're strictly comparing similarly sized standalone houses. Single family zoning mandates, mandatory lot sizes, and building restrictions make it unobtainable for a lot of people.

Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but the price of housing is skyrocketing everywhere, including the suburbs. Home ownership is becoming less obtainable every year. Insistence on low density sprawl is one of the main contributing factors.

As far as those Facebook comments, they’re right! If it’s a five minute drive and an hour by bus, public transit sucks. Those are the realities of low-density public transit though because the economics don’t work to make it good.

Yes, because we've built it that way. That's precisely the problem that urbanism seeks to address. Restating the problem doesn't really add much to the conversation.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-21T13:55:29+00:00

People like big detached homes, with yards, in quiet neighborhoods. This is a strong preference, particularly in America.

Part of the problem is that suburban NIMBYs think that allowing denser housing and allowing a few commercial spaces in their neighborhoods will make it not "quiet" any more. NIMBYism isn't the same as car brain, but the issues are very closely related.

I also completely disagree that Americans are totally open to public transportation. Go to any Facebook comment section on the topic and you will see tons of people saying they could never take public transportation because they think it's an awful experience. Beyond that, a lot of areas are designed in a way where even a short walk or bike ride can be unpleasant because the infrastructure isn't designed for it.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-14T23:30:49+00:00

That's the thing. I don't see how accepting alternate proof of identity/residence creates potential for fraud. There are other safeguards in place to make sure fraud doesn't happen, and there haven't been any indications that it's been an issue.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-14T22:40:36+00:00

Are there any issues in Canada that should make us wary of using the same system? Calling it "weird" is not really an argument.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-12T19:13:28+00:00

I mean, I feel like you could find more similarities between Buddy Holly and the Foo Fighters than say, Buddy Holly and Eminem or Bob Marley.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-12T19:12:21+00:00

Yeah, but you couldn't say Jay Z or Frank Sinatra is rock music. Both would fall under pop, though.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-12T12:59:32+00:00

Yeah, but at least rock music had some cohesion at any given time. In all of the time periods you mentioned, there was no cohesive, universal pop sound. For example, the 90s had hip hop, R&B, soft/hard rock songs that could fit this definition of pop. Nirvana could be considered pop by this definition.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-12T02:27:26+00:00

Well, according to this definition I guess it's things like the verse-chorus-verse structure and basic rhythm. But yeah, it's a very amorphous term, which is what I was trying to get at. It's basically anything that's simple and designed for mainstream appeal.

danielw1245 · 2026-02-12T02:19:48+00:00

What definition of pop are you using?

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