Submission statement: essay on the failures of American urbanism as exemplified by LA and how booming sun belt cities like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Phoenix are all on the same path.
Posted by Yeangster
Submission statement: essay on the failures of American urbanism as exemplified by LA and how booming sun belt cities like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Phoenix are all on the same path.
Posted by Yeangster
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California exported the SFH suburbanization and property tax breaks for the already wealthy (those who bought property early).
LA could be more if we let it be more. Wilshire should be our main thoroughfare with high density housing and the subway. The fact that there are SFHs not even 200 ft from it is a damning indictment of where our priorities lie.
Housing costs eating up half the budget of the average worker. What do you think that does to the local economy?
As someone from Chicagoland I’m stunned over how people in these sun belt sprawls aren’t bored out of their minds from how spread out everything is. One of the more egregious examples is how San Antonio the city is just barely more dense than the all suburban DuPage county, Illinois
And you forgot San José and Austin: Austin was on the same trajectory until it chose to break free a couple of years back, while the San José-Oakland sprawl got boxed in by geography far earlier.
Houston doesn’t have zoning lol. It’s SFH sprawl because that’s the market demand. Zoom into a satellite image of the city, you’ll see SFHs beside row houses beside apartment complexes, all around schools, grocery stores, and other amenities.