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@IcelanderUSer Car dependent Suburbia was not created in the 1950s America... Detroit (the once proud Motor City) was the first one to begin experimenting with the automobile and car centric urban design. The left wing usually says, "More government intervention was needed to save Detroit." The right wingers often say, "We needed more tariffs to protect jobs in Detroit." Here is the reality: - Detroit is the first city to bulldoze public buildings and parks to make way for many parking lots. - Detroit is the first city to create car centric infrastructure in their neighborhoods. - Detroit came up with the idea of widening 2 lane local streets, into 6 lane highways for faster moving car traffic. - The Motor City also came up with the idea of rapid sprawl and separation, using the automobile as a tool to fuel this growth. Growth was seen as something good, since Detroit faired well during the Great Depression of the 1930s. ***When you sprawl everything out; you lower your tax revenue base and increase the amount of liabilities that you are obligated to service (water pipes, wires, sewage, wastewater treatment plants, water towers, road maintenance etc.) After ww2, those in key positions of power wanted America economy to keep on going, and not go into a slump after industrial war production was put off. Policy makers and planners thought that big investment in this (Detroit inspired) car centric suburban growth, would save America from another Great Depression. America poured in generations of incrementally built up community wealth, into this experiment, that has never been done before in human history. This experiment has been a disaster and in the process, has destroyed the livelihood of so many people! "American" Urban Planning is like how the Devil operates. Through distortion, dissolution, and eventually total destruction of anything beautiful.
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@MikeDrop136 America has the wrong professionals in the wrong jobs. Technical professionals are meant for support, while Non-technical professionals (i.e.: craftsmen) are meant for leadership roles. Civil engineers are not capable of grasping urban complexity, psychology of people or community beauty. The best cities found all over Europe/Asia were ALL designed by local artists, tradesmen, craftsmen, traditional architects, and non-technical urban planners. Civil engineers are only needed for design of water/sewage systems and logistical transit. It is time for America to adapt some form of Ethical Socialism.
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@IcelanderUSer Not true whatsoever about "blue states" funding "red states". We've built many dense urban areas that are NOT financially productive; that require subsidies (paid by red state farmers/ranchers) to stay afloat. We've also built many low density places that are very financially productive. For example: grain farms that export hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cereals and never take any subsidy money from the federal government.
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@IcelanderUSer Also, you people in New York may not drive or own a private car. But all of your food, clothing, furniture etc. (all the shit that you want) gets shipped to you by freight trucks travelling on interstate freeways! Since American rail systems are completely unreliable.
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The American Interstate Freeways are a direct copy of Hitler Autobahn Highway System. The 1939 New York World Fair (featuring GM and car centric infrastructure of the future), were all inspired by an Austrian Artist from Germany.
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Your community is a rare exception, but many wealthy pre-WW2 communities were demolished by Interstate Freeways. Those that were not decimated by Freeways, saw financial decline as living areas for people became more and more sprawled out. It's only in the last few years, that Americans are reversing this experimental suburban trend.
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@chamboyette853 Our entire automotive industry has become unreliable, because we have become over reliant on road based vehicles. If all interstate freeways were to shut down right now, New York City would starve to death because the pre-ww2 cities rely mostly on trucks to deliver food and other necessities these days. Our train network is also being prioritized in the wrong ways. Yes, New York has big rail networks, but most of that is used for sending city garbage into states like South Carolina.
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@IcelanderUSer NYC and America itself had a different and more effective system back in 1940. It's not my fault you don't do your own research and are jealous of my kaleidoscopic range of knowledge, Lol.
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