Yes that's an awful idea. Giving up on livable large cities and having more small, inefficient cities is NOT better for the country. Bad urbanism is the reason our country can't or won't grow cities. With good urbanism, cities get better with more people. - ThreadSky

malevolentmango.bsky.social • 55 days ago

Yes that's an awful idea. Giving up on livable large cities and having more small, inefficient cities is NOT better for the country.
Bad urbanism is the reason our country can't or won't grow cities. With good urbanism, cities get better with more people.

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ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

But they are inefficient. Public services are delivered more effectively and efficiently in small/medium cities than the biggest cities.

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

Look at Tokyo or Amsterdam no Dallas or LA and you'll see that's not the case in well designed cities. At the extremes, suburbia loses money and has to be subsidised
https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI?si=gZy8EPdygCluesSe

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

As you can see, the top rated cities are all smaller cities. All these cities have cheaper construction costs than the superstar cities.
https://www.governing.com/community/the-best-and-worst-run-cities-in-america

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

I'd question wether the growth in places like Nampa is healthy, but overall I'm fine with growth in smaller cities even if I prefer conscientious development.

What exactly are you proposing?

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

Policies that move the good jobs to areas with cheaper building costs. Every level of gov't has spent decades influencing where the jobs have gone with hundreds of different policies. Biden did it with IRA policies.
Also, you can build denser in these small cities.

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

Can you be more specific? Do you actually want to uproot existing jobs? Or just offer selective incentives?

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

also Amsterdam has a housing crisis despite being able to build apartments over shops.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/06/netherlands-amsterdam-next-level-housing-crisis

ymroddi.bsky.social•55 days ago

Not talking about extremes. Medium sized cities deliver services more efficient than the biggest cities. Are you saying LA is well run and efficient service delivery????
To fix housing affordability without building a lot in smaller cities where it is cheap and easy to build.

malevolentmango.bsky.social•55 days ago

I said "No[t] LA or Houston"

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