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How Suburban Development Makes American Cities Poorer [ST02]

Not Just Bikes · 1.2M views · 2020-11-16 · 8:13

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Overview

Not Just Bikes contrasts traditional and suburban development in North America. It looks at the financials behind each pattern and argues that suburban development leaves cities unable to pay for their own infrastructure.

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Cited in urban planning threads as an accessible explanation of why low-density suburbs cost more to maintain than they bring in.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

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Transit, cities & urban planningMacroeconomics & financial crises
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suburbsurban planninginfrastructure costscity financesdensity

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Rendello · 2021-07 · Strong recommendation

Not Just Bikes is a great channel on urban development, and he did a series on Strong Towns' ideas specifically. I like this one, "How Suburban Development Makes American Cities Poorer". [VIDEO]

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rglullis · 2024-07 · Reference

Holy shit, talk about reading things out of context. You, dear sir, have absolutely nothing in common with the average North American who lives in the suburbs. The question was not directed at you. If you want to at least try to understand the context before jumping to give your opinion and share with us your psycho issues, try watching [VIDEO]

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gaff33 · 2023-07 · Reference

The problem is that low density urban areas are subsidsed by high densisty urban areas: [LINK] [VIDEO] etc They are also terrible for the planet.

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