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Re:A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above by naravara on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:57PM (#21924677)
>People aren't going to give up single family detached homes with garages and yards until they have to.

That housing stock will eventually rot away as people age and their local governments can't afford to maintain the infrastructure anymore. Entropy will win eventually as future generations can no longer afford to live so far away from job centers.

Plus, it's not as if you can't have urbanism and still have garages and yards. They just end up being smaller. Plenty of places have yards and garages in urban Pittsburgh or Philly. The template for density doesn't always have to be Manhattan or Hong Kong.

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Re:A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above by lotsofpulp on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:26PM (#21925191)
That’s what I mean. High fuel costs are going to be the reason local government can’t afford to maintain infrastructure, and people can’t afford to commute. And not just cost in terms of money, but also environmental damage and whatnot, however it ends up being felt.
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