I agree with this vision for a possible future. The suburbs will hang on for a while as the city cores get denser and more walkable. Private cars will be luxuries rather than the necessities they are now. Maybe electric will eventually win out over gasoline, but that's for the free market to decide. Public policy should focus on providing transit for the masses.
You sound pretty insular. Too much of the right-wing talking points and not enough enjoyment of the culture and vibrancy that many of our cities have to offer.
Nonsense. The desire to live in apartments packed together likes chickens in multi-story egg factories takes a special type of submissive obedience that is culturally un-American. This country was founded, and settled, by people wanting their own piece of land and home. Not essentially prison cells that they hold the key to.
We've already turned the corner and are heading away from the gasoline era. By 2040, there will be far fewer gasoline stations. Why the hell would consumers continue to pay for that when they can harvest thousands of watts on a typical rooftop? My sunbelt state is already scrambling to figure out how to fund road maintenance because of the reductions in gas tax revenue. They want to start maintaining roads with car registration and sale fees.
Most cities and a lot of other areas will be very grid-dependent. That's why we need to take the routing decisions away from the corporate scam artists and implement smarter grid planning.
Most Americans already live in big cities. The city of Los Angeles alone has 7x the population of the entire state of Wyoming.
Oh I used to love to visit places like Chicago for the Field Museum, the Science and Industry Museum, the Shed Aquarium, the Planetarium, Art Institute, Navy Pier, and Wrigley Field. Washington DC is another amazing place with far too many place of interest to mention. As well as many other cities across the country. The attractions are still there but all those cities are in decline and crime is up. I've been there, seen what I wanted to see, and have no need to go back and certainly would not want to live there.
Gasoline and diesel will be around well into the foreseeable future. There are far too many ICE vehicles on the road and still being produced for the source of their fuel to dry up. Add to that the hobbyist with antique vehicles and the need doesn't dry up. As long as the oil companies can make money on it gas and diesel will survive.
Hurray for them. My bet is Wyoming is perfectly happy with their lesser population and more square miles per person. Plus they probably don't have homeless encampments and people shitting on the sidewalk.
Actually, nobody's trying to convince a midwestern right-winger like you of moving anywhere. Get over yourself.
Well duh, they don’t have sidewalks.
I have lived in both. As much as I hated Wyoming...I would live there over LA any day.
Actually as I have stated several times, try paying attention, I live in Tennessee. The only people that always call me a right winger is you wacko libs on here. Again if you paid attention called me a right winger is only about maybe half right. Some of my political stances lean a bit more to the left.
And essentially they have no yard. AND no place for my pole barn!! No thanks.
Then why are you posting to a thread about urban design?
This is a perfect example the sort of wasteland you get when you build every thing around universal car ownership.
I have seen some well built large older houses on small lots in urban locations. I might eventually have a room or apartment in such a house. That would be better than an apartment in a huge block with a corporate landlord. Those newer houses are probably built to lower standards with cheaper materials. The most obvious flaw is the dead end street, commonly called a lollipop street, which increases travel distance for many trips and puts more traffic on the connecting streets and main roads.
Someone has to be the voice of reason. If your dream comes true more of you clowns will eventually hate it and escape to the rural and suburban sprawl will reappear with a vengeance.
Some people don't need a yard.
