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How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less
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It will be expensive and take generations, but the following is a pretty decent roadmap:

1. Infill infill infill: the core cities must be revitalized. This is a painstaking and slow process frought with financial risk, regulatory constraints and political land minds. NIMBYism is ever present and developers who engage in this have to have deep pockets, incredibly patient financiers and and a stomache for years and years of fights. Need to wholesale revamp city landuse codes which have developed into a kafkaesque nightmare over the years and replace most use zoning with form-based codes. Have the fight once, and then let the city evolve naturally.

2. Transit. And by transit I mean high capacity transit. And by high capacity transit I mean fixed rail. And by fixed rail I mean light rail. You will never get a high ridership in most American cities on bus. Never. Touted BRT systems are just as, if not more expensive than light rail and do not have same attraction. Cheap BRT is glorified bus that doesnt offer any real benefits. Light rail pays dividends over time. It spurs incredible development along the transit corridors and stops you never ever ever get with buses. It's expensive up front and cheap on the back end. And single lines don't work...for light rail to flourish it has to be a network taking people where they want to go.

3. Brownfield redevelopment of former industrial sites into dense urban nodes like Stapleton and Mueller.

4. Suburban retrofits. Tear down the dying malls - look at those acres usually well placed on major access points into incredible opportunities for redevelopment into town centers. Stich the grid back together. Engage in Road diets and zone the transit corridors VMU to create vibrant mixed use streets people actually want to be on.

5. Smart greenfield development. Even in the most optimistic scenario above at least 50% of all new development will be greenfield (today a major success would be 70% and in most communities its more like 90-95%). But not all greenfield is terrible. Great new communities can be created with careful and thoughtful planning such as Seaside and Kentlands.

A multi generational effort that our grandchildren's grandchildren will reap huge rewards from.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Gilgamesh18] * 1
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I just tweeted this to the city of Detroit.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Nifflerz] * 1
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On of the major problems with cities is either to take more space or expand with high rise

If you expand too much you create too much distance between the suburbs and downtown. If you have to many high rise, the population density gets uncomfortable for everybody.

If you plan on having large suburbs you should be ready to pay for a high tech, lightining fast transit system to connet downtown. Then again you have to be ready to destroy acres upon acres of forest in order to built more suburbs.

I you plan on going with density and high rise, you need to get really creative. Parks on the rooftops, indoor pools, gyms, tennis, etc. Solar panels to become more sustainable, etc.


Bottom line, its fucking expensive either way


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Patlal]
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The just opened a new subway line into the most congested part of northern Virginia. In only took 40 years.


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“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: koods]
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Yay subways!


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: koods]
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Eradicate the animals that infest these cities with crime, unless you do that the infrastructure investments will become worthless.

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: qman]
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qman said:
Eradicate the animals that infest these cities with crime, unless you do that the infrastructure investments will become worthless.


A good way to do that is gentrification! Areas of Brooklyn that were once no go zones are now hip and trendy and very safe. Gentrification can clean up blighted neighborhoods.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Patlal]
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Patlal said:
On of the major problems with cities is either to take more space or expand with high rise

If you expand too much you create too much distance between the suburbs and downtown. If you have to many high rise, the population density gets uncomfortable for everybody.

If you plan on having large suburbs you should be ready to pay for a high tech, lightining fast transit system to connet downtown. Then again you have to be ready to destroy acres upon acres of forest in order to built more suburbs.

I you plan on going with density and high rise, you need to get really creative. Parks on the rooftops, indoor pools, gyms, tennis, etc. Solar panels to become more sustainable, etc.


Bottom line, its fucking expensive either way


Agreed if we cut our ridiculous defense budget and used some of that wealth for high density we could make the cities livable once again.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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automated highway system pls

And if you're drunk and try to drive, the car would sense it and would lock you out from driving, putting the car in auto drive mode.


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Pull the blinds and change their minds....

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Cosmic_Flame]
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hahahah, these threads. the dishwasher needs a better life. lets fix the country for him. :cookiemonster:

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: akira_akuma] * 1
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Free markets without the burden of excessive government regulation and liberalism.

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: akira_akuma]
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akira_akuma said:
hahahah, these threads. the dishwasher needs a better life. lets fix the country for him. :cookiemonster:


Bro I have plenty of money I need something to do to stay occupied.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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so fixing the country is how you stay occupied? sounds like a bad mix.

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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: akira_akuma]
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I post about what interests me politics, economics and urban planning and design.


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Re: How to fix American cities in a 100 years or less [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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ok. fair enough. good of you to clarify.

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