Caveat: Broke(n) Cities

Urban planning has always fascinated me. I think if I'd felt more confident and more motivated during my college years, I'd have pursued that as a career.

Perhaps it can be attributed to my somewhat countercultural background, but I have always harbored a great deal of skepticism about what might be termed the US's "typical suburban development model." Recently I ran across a rather stunning indictment of this development model, concluding that not only does it produce fragmented and/or insular communities and excessive energy consumption, but it also is, in strictly financial terms, something like a publicly-sponsored pyramid scheme and utterly unsustainable. 

[daily log: walking, 5km]

2 Comments

  1. Wendy Miller

    This is interesting. Do you have a link to this? Since my semi hippie, feminist self is now living in a suburban community, I often feel out of place! Despite the fact that I live in a very straight, heterosexual, white conservative community, I do love my house and the luxury of NOT living in a fixer upper!

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