Re:A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above
by dashundchen on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:14PM
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It already is too late for much of the of mass suburbanization in the US. They are not finanically sustainable.
https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
A bit of a read in a 5 part series but well worth it.
Strongtowns.org refers to suburban sprawl as the "growth ponzi scheme". Low density sprawl requires more infrastructure with less density to pay for it. The density of suburbs can never hope to pay for the renewal of roads, water, sewers, schools without massive transfer payments from denser areas. By the time the bill comes and the illusion of growth has stopped, the center of development has already moved out to the next ring of farms to pave over for subdivisions, shopping plazas and highway expansions.
The US sure painted itself into a corner with suburbanization. I doubt that it's reversible. Or at least, that it would ever be reversed before it was far too late.