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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.

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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.
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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.

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