Comment by cyberax
5 days ago
Large dense cities are inherently awful. And attempting to fix them results in a slow-moving societal collapse.
Smaller cities, sparse cities like Houston, and special-purpose dense cities (like college or military towns) are fine.
That flies in the face of the huge breadth of large dense cities in this world, as well as that of neighborhoods inside of them.
And all the large developed countries that keep concentrating people into dense cities are now suffering from it.
There's an almost perfect correlation in the Western world between density increases and the rise of inequality (Gini index).
This is a willful blind spot for urbanists. They just pretend to blame everything on "end-stage capitalism" or some such.
Countries don’t “concentrate people into cities”… the people create cities by choosing to live close to each other.
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