• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    8 days ago

    when you don’t regulate growth

    America looks this way because it was precisely regulated to be this way. You got some knowledge gaps or you are naive how this really went down.

    A few pointers:

    1. Car lobby: dismantling of public transit system in major urban centers while along with obstruction of any public transit construction
    2. Classism with a super heavy dose of American racism: People did not want to live among the “crime” and “undesirables” and government was more happy than codify racism into zoning laws
    3. Financial institutions enabling all of this with their “informal” (aka) racist under writing requirements.

    Again, EU has suburbs and their not nearly as bad as whatever US cooked and a lot of EU has to be rebuilt after WW2 and but they managed to maintain some sort of social cohesion in their infrastructure and urban design.