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0 pointsnaasking3y ago0 comments

> No, they're not. Urban sprawl is the result of deficient density.

That's one cause. The other cause that you seem to refuse to understand is creating the wrong kind of density. An urban centre full of 1 bedroom apartments is still going to create urban sprawl because families just can't live there, thus driving them out of the city centre even though they still work there. I just don't get why you refuse to understand this very obvious point.

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tptacek3y ago

Because it's not a real problem, but rather one you've invented, and in the real world we have the exact opposite problem, of huge swathes of desirable residential land all SFZ'd, so you can't even build town homes on a parcel.

naaskingOP3y ago

It's amazing you keep saying this when I've said multiple times now that I'm living in exactly that kind of city (a large North American city), and it's not the only one with this exact problem. But sure, keep ignoring the data for your simplistic solution.

tptacek3y ago

I live in Chicago. You can look us up on the Internet. It's pretty big.

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0 pointsnaasking3y ago0 comments

> No, they're not. Urban sprawl is the result of deficient density.

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tptacek3y ago

naaskingOP3y ago

tptacek3y ago

I live in Chicago. You can look us up on the Internet. It's pretty big.

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