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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by baybal2 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:52PM (#14614004)
Just curious to see findings. I'm very enthusiastic to see the issue getting more coverage.

I used to have a lot of interest in architecture and design. When I first came to North America, I was surprised by disfunctional urban planning, and even more so by the fact that very few Americans were giving any concern to that.

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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by hueving on Saturday June 24, 2017 @11:10AM (#14625833)
Car culture is so big in the US that outside of the few cities with really bad traffic problems, nobody cares about sprawl.

The vast majority of everyone's experience of public transportation is shitty, slow busses and commuter trains with limited schedules and stops that you drive to. So cities that force you to use public transit sound really unappealing to people that haven't experienced something like Tokyo.

These two factors are why Americans don't have much concern about urban planning.

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