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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ crawford sees the world in an extremely black/white fashion.
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No. I don't buy that building functionally suburban-style housing in a dense manner or in-town location creates functional change.
The implicit claim is that adding a whole bunch of suburban-style townhouses will someday turn Houston's Inner Loop into a core Chicago-type environment (aka auto lite). I don't believe this will happen, ever, because Houston doesn't have prewar fabric, and the stuff built now is functionally no different than in the burbs.
Again, there is no functional difference between this housing and what is built 40 miles outside of city centers. But there are no kids involved, so it's the stacked townhouse model (which appears in exurbia too, just less common, because exurbia is kid-centered).