My tweet about ugliness of highway strip development is getting WAY more traffic than any given one of my train tweets, but...
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Last point, in sum, etc--the tweet abt ugly highways got me more notifications; the tweets abt pretty trains get me more followers
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@KalishJantzen Got it, more pictures of pretty guns, and Serbian girls, and churches!
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What I’m trying to figure out: how do you get failing exurbia/suburb people to repopulate small regional cities.
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short answer--you don't, unfortunately long answer forthcoming (eventually)
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Could be I’m not deep enough in urbanism, but I see a lot of stuff about densifying mega-cities. Make NY into Tokyo stuff.
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making NY into Tokyo would mean way more single family houses and way fewer apartment blocks...but I digress...
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...the problem is that large cities keep growing b/c people want/need to live there
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as Tokyo grew, cities in Tohoku stagnated and shrank--the Shinkansen helped turn the tide, but by converting those cities...
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...into "parts," in a sense, of Tokyo--not by provoking real local development. The same would happen here, take Troy:
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Troy is decaying because it doesn't have a productive economy of its own; NYC does have such an economy. So ppl move to NYC...
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I look at the N.E. And I think- what if you could get all these people living in nowhere into Troy, Lewiston, Springfield?
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I work in Springfield--the emptiness of once-strong regional cities is a plague on the Northeast, but...
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...I don't know of any way that it might be reversed. Even in Japan, places like Hokkaido & the Nihonkai coast have this problem
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it's a result of globalization and industrial consolidation — those could be reversed, though we may not want to
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Even if making x in Lewiston doesn’t make sense, seems crazy that capital can’t figure out, “make y” there instead
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capital would rather make y in bangladesh, but what cities need not just jobs but senior jobs
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if you want a rich local cultural life, you need people with the disposable cash to fund it: you need managers
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owners, not managers (or rather, not JUST managers)
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