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Love the idea and lived in London to experience this. Amazing way to work but long term living is expensive as everyone wants to live like this, the photos shared in the article in London and Amsterdam are some of the most expensive places to reside. I believe what many feel is this is just another development exclusively for the $500k+/yr family and ultimately will lead to more traffic congestion for the surrounding areas and less affordability for surrounding towns.

As others have commented why not redevelop existing cities, rather than creating more urban sprawl? If bureaucracy/corruption in local government is a problem then fund politicians and get voters out to change this. Why arent feds involved in redevelopment? SF/Oakland/Berkeley are nowhere near the dense living of europe but they are going in the right direction. The problem these cities have is they simply arent run very well and have weak leadership that flop along with whatever the current thing is.