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]]> By: Nathan Bowers http://davetroy.com/posts/the-coming-american-city#comment-844 Nathan Bowers Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:54:19 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=1090#comment-844 Why people live in the suburbs:<br><br>1) Schools. Race, class, and local politics are issues around this.<br>2) Housing costs, inability to buy a "nice" place in the city core.<br>3) People like to live near their socioeconomic and lifestyle peers.<br><br>I'm for urban core living, but it's not easy, especially for middle class families. My friends in NYC love it, but they put up with tiny apartments in buildings with ancient infrastructure (for example, no temperature control, no laundry, water always going out, poor maintenance, crooked landlords, etc.) <br><br>Part of the problem is that cities aren't flexible. It's easier to build new in the suburbs than to reshape the city.<br><br>Downtown L.A. is becoming more livable though: new high rise luxury condos, and conversions of old buildings. Perhaps it was easier here because there was almost *no* residential scene downtown, so there was a low NIMBY factor.<br><br>Unfortunately you still need a car in L.A. Public transit works in dense cities, but L.A. is already a sprawl. Not sure how you fix that.<br><br>Cars seem to be an either/or proposition for cities. Why people live in the suburbs:

1) Schools. Race, class, and local politics are issues around this.
2) Housing costs, inability to buy a “nice” place in the city core.
3) People like to live near their socioeconomic and lifestyle peers.

I'm for urban core living, but it's not easy, especially for middle class families. My friends in NYC love it, but they put up with tiny apartments in buildings with ancient infrastructure (for example, no temperature control, no laundry, water always going out, poor maintenance, crooked landlords, etc.)

Part of the problem is that cities aren't flexible. It's easier to build new in the suburbs than to reshape the city.

Downtown L.A. is becoming more livable though: new high rise luxury condos, and conversions of old buildings. Perhaps it was easier here because there was almost *no* residential scene downtown, so there was a low NIMBY factor.

Unfortunately you still need a car in L.A. Public transit works in dense cities, but L.A. is already a sprawl. Not sure how you fix that.

Cars seem to be an either/or proposition for cities.

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