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Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by anovikov on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:59AM (#25890763)
Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war, getting an edge over Commies which they could neither economically nor ideologically afford to replicate.

Commies are long gone, that goal no longer applies, move on.

Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by chrisseaton on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:34AM (#25891525)
> Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war

This seems historically illiterate, because suburbs came before the Cold War.

Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by anovikov on Sunday January 24, 2021 @08:48AM (#25891995)
But suburbanisation properly became a thing with policies of destroying public transport, and redlining that while invented in 1934, started to get massively applied around 1947. Destruction of public transport made living in inner cities more difficult and in suburbs, relatively easier - and redlining made people feel compelled to move out out inner cities.
Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by chrisseaton on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:14AM (#25892173)
> started to get massively applied around 1947

Ok but that's not when it was invented, which is what you said.

Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by strictnein on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:17AM (#25890837)
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-27cc-a3d9...

The Daily Evening Rush Of Suburbanites And Travelers For The Cortlandt Street Ferry, Pennsylvania Railroad. (1899)

Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by throw998 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:51AM (#25893460)
> Commies are long gone, that goal no longer applies, move on.

On the contrary, they are running the asylum