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Originally Posted by Architype
One of the problems of modern planning is the total separation of land uses. In order to have a village type of living again, we have to re-integrate land uses. People have a problem with that though, but actually it is a left over of the days of heavy industry when people didn't want to be living near smokestacks and have their house covered in soot. As soon as trains, streetcars, automobiles were invented people wanted to get outta there. So we invented suburbs, which are just a "pretend" way of simulating country estate living. It isn't city and it isn't country, its just - all the same everywhere. Now, as the lots sizes get smaller and smaller, you have the worst of all worlds right at home. All the inconvenience of living in the countryside without any of the benefits, and all the hassles of living in the city without any of the convenience.
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I actually got a book about the early industrial era in canada. You do really appreciate why people wanted to get the Fluff out of factory areas.
Just the civic fire prone to the early cities alone were enough to want to force people to the burbs.
I have no denial that for a limited time, cars and suburbs were a great way of rapidly expanding the standards of living of its folk.
However with IT, stringent safety standards, and standarized predictable growth patterns of modern economies etc, its extremely outdated.
Worst still walkable areas have been ghettoized into slums.