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!
suburbs *are* married to cities tho, you don't get a suburb popping up in the middle of nowhere with no urban economy to tap into aim of walkability in economic terms is less abt mobility and more about barriers to entry we are certainly experiencign boom of twee urbanism
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I live in a place where there are suburbs unto themselves built around natural resources and tourism. The end of the built form is not cities. The suburb as I understand it is a township - medium scale - and it's an economic engine scaled down. It needn't be huge.
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Bruh you live in a major metropolitan area--with the exception I suppose of retirement communities, those suburbs wouldn't be getting built if not for Miami/FL/WPB
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These suburbs exist because Flagler installed infrastructure (trains) which let people move here. South Florida is not an outgrowth of Miami. It grew up one town at a time. In my county Miami is not a job creator where I live
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Tampa, Orlando, etc, all had much more infrastructure much earlier than Miami did--but Miami outclassed all of them and grew tremendously, the rest only really catching up in the sunbelt boom Miami might be far from your town specifically--but how many work in Fort Lauderdale?
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A lot of people now, but before that people worked in Boca Raton. IBM located here. There was an entire era of medium scale economic activity built around suburbs in the 80s and 90s. The assimilation of all labor to the city is a relatively recent development here
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IBM set up a branch there, but they're not *from* there--I'm gonna guess they wanted a branch location to serve the Greater Miami market and, as an already mature industry, needed to prioritize scale over proximity and so picked a suburban site. Close enough but spacious.
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They did manufacturing here as well as R and D. The business was international - fittingly - and as far as I know had nothing to do with export to Miami particularly. As far as I can tell Boca was selected due to the availability of space at a good price.
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Guarantee you there was substantial demand for IBM's products within Miami (which doesn't mean they ONLY served Miami--being a port city after all makes it an ideal point for international export too, which is itself a major factor in Miami's success)
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