@baklava6138
US suburbs are unique and cannot been found anywhere in the rest of the world. Car centric living is a nightmare and I believe it is one of the main reason depression levels are soo high. People are disconnected and are isolated with no natural life occurring on the streets.
@clav93089
I lived in the Mosaic District in Fairfax County, VA from 2017-2020. It was neat to see it gain popularity so quickly and become a case study of urban development in a suburban area. The Mosaic District is this dense, walkable place with a nice plaza and all kinds of shops and restaurants. There is a large outdoor screen where they show movies and live sports events, there's a lively farmers market, and it tends to stay busy with families, even around 10 -12 at night! It is surrounded by perhaps the most car-centric suburban development I've ever seen! So it's kind of this oasis away from the traffic congestion. It eventually became so popular a spot to hang out that they had to replace all the grass with turf and close down one of the through streets permanently. The transformation of an old warehouse into Caboose, a cafe and brewery that seats about 200+ people, extended pedestrian traffic across a very busy street. Hopefully they will redesign some of the surrounding streets and add more workforce housing in the Mosaic District to keep it growing!
@terrencemoore8739
So happy this is being discussed! The issue with traditional urban design needs more awareness
@anbay771
So happy this is being discussed! The issues with traditional urban design needs more awareness.
@JXY2019
Glad to see Chuck on this. Strong towns needs to go mainstream.
@sebastianreyes8025
Bro, i litterally been saying to myself that they should turn rundown malls into bars and restaurants and this video literally calls it out. NICE
@linusmlgtips2123
Suburbs are awful, honestly. I lived in a walkable location in Europe for a year and it was life changing. I feel pretty depressed moving back to America. I can't bike anywhere here with the way my city is designed, yet it's not much different from the other cities I've lived in...god don't get me started about Houston.
@LostChildOfTime
The automotive industry really did us a number.
@jamesesmond6774
The sad fact is, we knew this 70 years ago. We knew that the suburbs weren't financially viable, but we kept building anyway.
@Basta11
There is a variety of wants and needs from rural living, suburban living to skyscrapers to everything else in between. The problem in the US is that 80% of the land is zoned for single family detached houses. Mix commercial and residential is limited which necessitates car travel to do most tasks. Minimum parking requirements make it prohibitively expensive to build densely.
@NamelessProducts
It's not the suburbs vs the city. It's sprawl vs organic development.
@RipMinner
7 empty homes for every 1 homeless person is not a supply and demand problem. It’s a leadership problem.
@ac1455
Suburbs aren’t inherently bad. It’s when the costs of roads get heavily subsidized instead of bike lanes and public transport despite being far less efficient use of public funds, and the fact in many areas there is no mixed use ALLOWED (which should concern everyone on both sides since that’s very anti free market)
@sketchimation_shorts
The best solution: mixed zoning. Lots of mom and pop shops with apartments on top and quiet side streets for homes.
@josephchaneyiii
The infrastructure maintenance isn't planned, saved for, or taxed for from the beginning which is where the biggest problem lies. Anytime there is "extra" money in a municipal budget they find some way to spend it, same thing that caused the big issue for social security when Washington kept borrowing its funds for other things
@danielharris5181
The question should be what's better for people, not the economy.
@stevengracey5061
Sounds to me like zoning laws are the linchpin to the problem...reducing zoning laws to 2 classes 1. Mixed use and 2. Home, will reduce the problem overtime due to the increased flexibility that mixed use offers.
@SuperSmashTVChannel
Bottom line: greediness is causing all these housing issues. Simple! And the people in power (it doesn't matter the party) are not doing enough.
@ZMANIAC87
The biggest issue that this won't address in the near-term -> improving school districts. Everyone I know loves living in the city. But will move to start a family in the suburbs because the schools are so much better. Perhaps the trend of having fewer kids will help this housing issue but it takes a long time to recover a tax base to improve schools.
@DieNibelungenliad