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The only times in America when I’ve felt true community was in big-car Midwestern suburbs. https://twitter.com/bro_neill/status/1348355127216910336
I’ve come to the conclusion that libs hate suburbia and want to destroy it because they’re jealous and resentful of such a wholesome lifestyle.
You know what "breeds community"? Church. Whether you walk to it or drive to it. How does walking to the local bakery "breed community"? These are just words tacked next to each other like fridge magnets.
My view of urbanism is now that only the extremes are good. You should have an urban core that’s literally Neo Tokyo and then the rest is massive "disgusting" Sun Belt-style suburbia. You move from one to the other via hyperloop & flying car.
These debates about density are yet more evidence that we’ve stopped thinking technologically. If we had self-driving cars / hyperloop / flying cars you could have large houses and gardens and also not have everyone spend two hours per day commuting.
Same for cities. There’s lots of evidence that some classes of people naturally want to cluster in cities and that this is in some ways related to civilizational creativity and vitality. There’s no great civilization without at least one dense, vital urban core.
As long as you’re not trying to force people into the pod I’m fine with that. The rent in NYC is Too Damn High? One option is YIMBYism, which involves suspending the laws of politics. Another option is to build a New York 2 of 10M people on an artificial island across the harbor.
