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America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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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.
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.
Isn't the US like 70% empty land?
We have a lot of desert. And mountains. And Alaska.
And corn.
Hell no. More sprawl is not the answer.
Cities != Sprawl
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.
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
But expanding into agricultural areas instead of making current living spaces denser or better is the definition of sprawl.
No, sprawl would be adding suburban surrounds. Dense urban area is dense.
Modern well built cities networked by robust mass transit would decrease the need to take up natural and agriculture land.
I don't care how many modern cities you add, suburban infrastructure around existing poorly built cities is worse.