I'm not sure that there is a good answer to this that anyone is going to be happy with. We already have enough housing to house everyone in America. Mass redevelopment of urban areas, migration back to those urban areas, and demolition of the suburbs would result in a ton of CO2 emissions. It's probably better to redeveleop commercial areas in the suburbs into almost like smaller villages, where instead of one giant Target or Walmart for the town, there are a bunch of smaller retail/entertainment clusters more spread out and accessable by bike or foot. Sprawl/growth of the suburbs should definitely be halted, though.
I think that massive redevelopment would also need to entail massive jobs programs to encourage working near home. Furthermore, zoning laws would need to be upended to improve walkability and carbon-negative development.
In a sense, the car and it’s infrastructure are what allow unsustainable sprawl and our goal would be to abolish the car as a primary means of transportation. But the question is how do you do this without unduly punishing the poor?
I'm not sure that there is a good answer to this that anyone is going to be happy with. We already have enough housing to house everyone in America. Mass redevelopment of urban areas, migration back to those urban areas, and demolition of the suburbs would result in a ton of CO2 emissions. It's probably better to redeveleop commercial areas in the suburbs into almost like smaller villages, where instead of one giant Target or Walmart for the town, there are a bunch of smaller retail/entertainment clusters more spread out and accessable by bike or foot. Sprawl/growth of the suburbs should definitely be halted, though.
I think that massive redevelopment would also need to entail massive jobs programs to encourage working near home. Furthermore, zoning laws would need to be upended to improve walkability and carbon-negative development.
In a sense, the car and it’s infrastructure are what allow unsustainable sprawl and our goal would be to abolish the car as a primary means of transportation. But the question is how do you do this without unduly punishing the poor?
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