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crooked-v | 18 days ago

The problem with US cities is that they're not dense enough. Most of the US has spent the past half-centry actively making new high-density construction illegal or incredibly expensive, so everything is operating within the bounds of 1970s-80s construction being reused over and over again because it was grandfathered in.

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cyberax|18 days ago

BS. European cities are just as bad.

And the US cities resisted the urbanism blight for longer than Europe thanks to a much better design.

And Europe is now paying price for its density obsession. You see it as a rising tide of far-right movements in Europe.

deaux|17 days ago

> You see it as a rising tide of far-right movements in Europe.

Famously popular in the dense cities.

Wait, it's the literal opposite, the less dense the more popular they are.

danny_codes|18 days ago

Interesting jump there. Not sure what you mean by blight though?