Very skeptical of the urbanist wonks. In evangelizing the walkable built form (which doesn't have to occur at the city scale) they're often (knowing!) foot soldiers for globalist capitalists interests. Distrust!
No, proximity is still incredibly important--this is why so much of the country is stagnating, and why there is no rural equivalent of silicon valley or NYC. We are ignoring the importance of proximity to the ruin of most of the country's economy
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I think the ruin of this countries economy has been engineered by bankers who sold out our jobs to overseas competitors, not the inability to walk to an office building.
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These aren't mutually exclusive--and moreover you're confusing the who/why with the how
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(and office buildings are not the basis of any economy)
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They're entirely the basis of the American economy in 2018.
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lmao put 2 and 2 together here, you're close
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The suburbs are a testament to the fact you can scale up mobility effectively. I agree human scale mobility is preferable, but that's not married to cities and I think it will be less relevant in the future. I think we're experiencing a boom of twee bourgeois urbanism.
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I think we're really about to transcend mobility entirely. We're just on the cusp of that.
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people have been saying that for 100 years now man
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This time for sure
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