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    1. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      Single-family zoning and auto-oriented cities were never designed to benefit everyone, and exclusion was fundamental to their early success (affordable prices, low traffic). I think exclusionary systems like this are always embedded with the seeds of their own destruction.

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    2. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      Increasing democratization, enfranchisement, access, whatever you want to call it, caused both systems to buckle under their own weight. Hence, housing prices, congestion, & climate change that also harms the original beneficiaries (tho not as much as those originally excluded).

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    3. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      If everyone had access to low-density, auto-oriented cities from day one they'd have never succeeded, I don't think, even for the few decades where many (more privileged, mostly white) people really seemed to benefit, and it seemed like these places could actually work long-term.

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    4. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      Exclusionary systems don't scale, is I guess what I'm saying. They depend on an underclass that never escapes from underfoot. If they do, it suddenly becomes clear that the system can't provide to everyone the benefits originally afforded only to the privileged class.

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    5. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      Cities just can't function as cities if everyone has a home on a 5,000 sq ft lot, nor if everyone drives. They can work if SOME people have these things, but not all, and probably not even the majority. If your city gets "worse" as it grows, you've designed it wrong.

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    6. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      I think one question to ask, then, is how we design places, programs, and political structures that get *better* as more people join them, not worse. Transit is an obvious example of this, where you can create a virtuous cycle in which more riders = better service = more riders.

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    7. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      I think with housing the work is harder, because it depends on growth, which depends on turnover -- tearing things down and rebuilding bigger and differently -- over time. It's hard to manage that without doing harm, but I don't think that makes it any less essential.

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    8. Shane 'Sweet James' Phillips  🚶‍♂️ 🏘 🌳 🌇 🚉 🚲 🛴‏ @ShaneDPhillips Jan 24
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      Anyway, this is just a thought that's been at the back of my mind for a while. Still trying to fit it into my Grand Unifying Theory of Cities, which doesn't exist and never will (and probably shouldn't).

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      If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. She covers a lot of this but goes one step further: the idea that very low density (rural) can work, and very high density, but in between is a mess as you suggest.

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      Her reasoning, though, has a lot to do with there being enough eyeballs to deter criminal activity. And security cameras were somewhere between rare and nonexistent when she wrote the book, and are ubiquitous now.

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        2. apenwarr‏ @apenwarr Jan 24
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          Oh yeah, some of it is now a little obsolete. eg. I lived in Stuytown in Manhatttan for a while (giant bland housing project), which she predicted would be a permanent crime disaster. She didn't account for property values getting so sky-high they'd hire a private security force.

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          But even where her predictions missed a by a bit, the principles were still right. They needed that private security force, and it... is creepy.

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