We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by xyzzyz on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:52PM (#22909569)

There is not much urbanized part of the metro to speak of. It’s all suburbia, even in the city itself, 75% is zoned for single family houses. Given that my property taxes are 10 times what Strongtowns thinks it costs to maintain the streets, I seriously doubt I’m being subsidized by anyone when it comes to infrastructure.

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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by ghaff on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:03PM (#22909671)

A lot of people assume that urbanized metros imply a lot of high-rise residential. But take a place like Somerville in MA. It's one of densest cities in the country outside of the environs of NYC and there's not much high rise construction generally and a lot of the city is standalone houses.

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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by katbyte on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:05PM (#22909685)

What about the fact there are two of the largest tech companies in the world headquartered nearby? The downtown most definitely subsidizes suburbia.

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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by xyzzyz on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:17PM (#22909803)

Microsoft practically built a whole suburban town far from Seattle and made it its headquarters. It subsidizes suburbia because it is suburbia.

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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by Aloha on Saturday April 18, 2020 @03:29PM (#22910398)

Workers from Boeing 'built' the suburbia that Microsoft moved to, most of the housing in Redmond predates Microsoft.

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