Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose

Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by jngreenlee on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:56AM (#16801803)

You actually just described the modern approach to suburbs! Stapleton in Denver, Mueller in Austin are some examples. These basically become high priced, close in, suburbs.

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by Bartweiss on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:52AM (#16802279)

Interestingly, this sort of planned suburb seems to end up a lot like what we used to get organically.

Boston's inner suburbs are full of this sort of stuff - walkable stores, small business and light industry, 2-5 story buildings for housing. And it all feels a lot like the old quarters of many European cities.

Part of the change is building materials and cars, I suppose - what was obvious in 1850 now has to be planned to outcompete highrises and cars-first layouts. But an awful lot of it is just not outlawing what people already do if you let them; Boston's livable old suburbs are basically all illegal today.

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/

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