Again, no one who seriously works on this shit thinks that building market-rate housing solves everything—affordable housing, esp. 0-30, NEEDS SUBSIDY—but I think it’s pretty clear that building market-rate housing in affluent n’hoods is good. And you gotta build them both.
"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, @NYTimes, 1960.
1/It pains me to start a fight with my fellow YIMBYs, but I'm going to have to.
Yes, switching to greater density and train transit is good and desirable. But in terms of rapid decarbonization, we need ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
https://t.co/r8jUKr5g5B
"[T]he smartest minds..sank their talent, time, and capital into..digital technology [giving] us frictionless access to media,..goods, and chauffeurs..We were promised an industrial revolution. What we got was a revolution in consumer convenience." https://t.co/J7gyWRaTyh