Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
A Threat to Exurbia
Everyone -can- live in a pleasant exurban community. We just cannot all live in the same community. We know what happens when we allow infill at the city level; San Fernando Valley. We'd have none of the problems if the "cities" in the SFV had remained discreet. When they all grew together into a vast continuous urbanscape the inevitable congestion and inability to provide new, adequate infrastructure became obvious.
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Your butler in Beverly Hills may be discreet, but the cities in SFV are not discrete.
Cheers - Dave
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