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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
The suburbs choose to be a "lost cause". There are umpteen things we could to to make them less land-, energy- and finance-inefficient, but the people who live in them won't accept any changes, and certainly nothing like the changes that occur in city centres whether city-centre residents want those changes or not. (Not that incumbent residents should have any such veto in any event, but that anti-change political reality is much stronger in the suburbs than downtown.)
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It is the city planners and developers who design our suburbs, not individuals. Individuals choose the type of home and the general environment (parks, schools etc.). New suburbs have a much greater diversity of housing styles than in the past. What is lacking is making allowances for efficient transit and better cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. We don't do a good job at making allowances for bus lanes, continuous segregated cycling routes and pedestrian access to shopping, schools, and parks. When we don't do these things, we default to autocentric design and massive boulevards and the need for speed cameras to control speeds.
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