Hell no. More sprawl is not the answer.
Comment on America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer
ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let’s get lab grown meat going so we can free up all that cattle land in the middle of the country, build some well planned cities with high speed rail connecting them and spread out a bit.
Nemo@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Cities != Sprawl
Moneo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point is that we already have tons of cities that are way too sprawly. Adding more cities is way harder than retrofitting the ones we have.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
How would building a modern city in an open plain be harder than retrofitting a century (or more) old city, wrt transit, zoning, ecological concerns, etc?
I’m not saying it’s trivial to build a city. I’m saying a modern city does not jeed to work around the many many layers of complexity and existing city brings
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Isn’t the US like 70% empty land?
Nemo@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
We have a lot of desert. And mountains. And Alaska.
Drusas@kbin.run 3 weeks ago
And corn.
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 3 weeks ago
Land is not, and will not for the forseeable future be the point of contention in the US, it's the rail connections and building 'well planned cities' that people actually want to live in that are basically impossible.