• @[email protected]
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    229 days ago

    How would building a modern city in an open plain be harder than retrofitting a century (or more) old city, wrt transit, zoning, ecological concerns, etc?

    I’m not saying it’s trivial to build a city. I’m saying a modern city does not jeed to work around the many many layers of complexity and existing city brings

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      429 days ago

      But expanding into agricultural areas instead of making current living spaces denser or better is the definition of sprawl.

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        029 days ago

        No, sprawl would be adding suburban surrounds. Dense urban area is dense.

        Modern well built cities networked by robust mass transit would decrease the need to take up natural and agriculture land.

        I don’t care how many modern cities you add, suburban infrastructure around existing poorly built cities is worse.