#suburbansprawl — Public Fediverse posts

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency

Not all #suburbia is #sprawl, but far too much of it is. The defining characteristic of #SuburbanSprawl is car-dependency, which results from bad decisions around density, land-use, budgeting, design, infrastructure etc.

#Suburbs don’t have to be car-dependant. We’ve just chosen to make them that way so far. We can do suburbs differently.

The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person.
We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED all that extra space, and the excessive stuff we fill it with that we likely wouldn’t buy if we didn’t have the space we thought we needed to fill.
We really don’t.
Via #TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett #Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #urbanism #cities #suburbs #suburbia

Those choosing (and for many — not all, but many — it IS a choice) to live in the heavily subsidized suburbs are NOT ALSO entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT #IanLockwood cartoon
#Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #traffic #cars #city #driving #commuting #transportation #cities

Suburban Sprawl costs 38% more public money upfront & 10% more ongoing public cost than compact infill growth, with only 1/10th the ongoing tax revenue, according to the Smart Growth America report discussed in this Bloomberg Citylab article.

#Sprawl is REALLY expensive for everyone.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-21/quantifying-the-cost-of-sprawl

#Suburbs #Suburbia #SuburbanSprawl #cities #cars #CityMakingMath #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #city #transportation #car #Infill

Not all #suburbia is #sprawl, but far too much of it is. The defining characteristic of #suburbansprawl is car-dependency, which results from bad decisions around density, land-use, design, infrastructure, budgeting, etc.

#Suburbs don’t have to be car-dependant. We can do them differently.

#cities #urbanism

Build up not out!

#urbanism #suburbansprawl

If you’re trying to “solve” traffic congestion, road widenings are very expensive exercises in futility - unless your ACTUAL intention is more people driving more often and longer in the same or worse congestion, and a lot more suburban sprawl.
#cities #suburbs #suburbia #urbanplanning #urbanism #sprawl #suburbansprawl #induceddemand #transportation #inducedtraffic

Remember, the answer to car-dependant “retail sprawl” can’t just be green tech on buildings in the fundamentally wrong place — & “better cars” isn’t the answer either. Rethink the land-use, mobility, the whole thing. Otherwise you’re just doing the wrong things better. HT Singer #cityplanning #suburbansprawl #cities #suburbs #shopping #retail #irbanplanning #sprawl

#Infrastructure built solely for cars is inefficient, paves over an obscene amount of Earth, and contributes to the socially isolation of the society in which we live.

#FuckCars #SuburbanSprawl #Suburbs #ForcedCarOwnership