If you wanna know why Japan commands the future and not Europe/USA, consult their divergent visions of future city lifepic.twitter.com/qlTl3RvFHi
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Because soooo many urban design projects in the USA these days tout "green space" when they mean "a blank field" or something close to it.
The very definition of a city is that it's a place where space is at a premium--none of it can go to waste!
Forcing space into cities, spreading them out, makes them more destructive to the environment & more awkward for their residents to live in
Some cities naturally spread out due to free population movement. Especially in England, people urbanism and then drifted out over centuries
yes, they are especially likely to spread out when they are stagnating--when there is a declining advantage to being close together
It's also about which people want to be around which people. Started with middle class, now it's along racial, religious lines
Specifically in the case of old Mill towns in England
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