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Re:What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create ... by honkhonkpants on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:39PM (#12500525)
Early so-called streetcar suburbs are great for young people because they are scaled perfectly for bicycling.

What people are referring to on this thread is really exurbs.

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Re:What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create ... by WorldMaker on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:10PM (#12500808)
Yesterday's exurbs are today's suburbs. Today's exurbs are yesterday's small towns and neighboring counties. The sprawl keeps sprawling.
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Re:What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create ... by ocschwar on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:24PM (#12502448)
I live in one of those streetcar suburbs. It WOULD be great for kids, even though my house is a short walk from those oh-so-scary high rises, because that also makes it a short walk from a lot of things a kid wants to walk to.

The one catch is the risk of my kid being squished like a bug by idiot suburban drivers.

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