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Originally Posted by badrunner
No. Slums do not "work" better than US suburbia. That kind of housing could never work here. You have a very distorted view of the world and how people live.
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I was not talking about slums, but the dense middle-casse, lower middle-class neighbourhoods in Latin America, Southern Europe and Japan. Something like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.589...7i16384!8i8192 or
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5703...7i16384!8i8192 or
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2918...7i16384!8i8192
They're not exactly beautiful places, but it's not horrible either. When I was younger, I was more critical to this dense style, today I find them ok. In fact, I prefer all the three examples than Cupertino as it looks today.
As we live in a world more and more concerned with waste, environment impact, climate change, they're definitely more sensible choices than the American suburbia. In fact, from an environmental point of view, anything is better than traditional American suburbia.