Will telecommuting, unaffordability, cars, kill cities or force their revitalization in usage & purposes? Are reinvented cities POSSIBLE in USA?

[DrPepper12]

With vertical farming, aquaculture, car bans, multiuse & multigenerational housing, sustainable cheap energy, new service industries, etc I'm optimistic. You?

Cities are done. Especially USA cities!

Cities are essential. USA will be late but arrive!

[OneViewpoint]

When you talk about affordability, how efficient is it to have small rural populations spread over massive, mostly empty land areas? Infrastructure like transportation, water, energy, healthcare, communications, and even mail delivery is much more expensive in rural areas. Could we have say 30 New York Cities, Chicago's, or LA's in the US? Or 60 Boston's, Atlanta's, or Seattle's? Could we get most of the population into cities? What about agriculture? What happens to humans when you pack them like rats, LOL?

On the flip side. If humans were concentrated in relatively small areas, does transportation change drastically? Like European cities, people could live where they work. Walking becomes possible. Bikes replace cars. Neighborhoods replace rural towns. Uh oh, the auto industry along with oil and gas, just had a heart attack. Are there benefits to the environment? Electric grids shrink in size and maintenance budgets. Redistricting as a political manipulation becomes a lot harder.

I'd like to see it tried as a proof of concept. A clean sheet of paper build of an optimized city with some elements of European cities but maybe more American style vertical expansion. Say planning for up to 5 million people. It would take about 65-70 population centers of that size to swallow the US population currently. Fun to think about.

[Tarifa]

I don't know about the USA, but big cities in several European countries are increasingly hard to live in. Soaring rental prices mean only the wealthy are able to find a decent flat to live in, the rest being reserved for quick-gain tourist rentals on a daily or weekly basis.

Most people I know who work in bigger cities live on the outskirts for financial reasons and commute every day from home to work and back. The result is congested city centers with traffic jams during the day, with virtually no-one actually residing there at night.

[DrPepper12]

Yup. We've sacrificed our human needs for the fucking car!!

[Anonymous]

Might actually save cities and make them affordable for average people to afford to live and work in them. Instead of cities growing at levels their infrastructure and housing can't easily maintain they exist at maintainable levels that will make cities actually good places to live for those that wish to live there. Instead of families being spread out throughout different states the way they are now as people move for jobs or because they can't afford to live in the cities they were born in families might stay in one place which makes it easier for families to support each other in terms of childcare and other things. People can also choose to live in rural areas or small towns as they don't need to travel to work or move for work. You will be able to grow your own food.

Thats at least one scenario. The other scenario is the 15 minute city. Where everything you need is within a 15 minute walk so no need to travel and you may not be allowed to leave your 15 minute are.

Also have you ever tasted the difference between fruit and vegetables that were vertically farmed and grown in aquaponics?

[Friendlybro79]

Businesses are bringing people back to the orifices because it saves them money somehow. They seem to be able take advantage of tax breaks by having people in the orifice. It helps them save money at times and they don't care if it costs us money to commute despite it having zero to do with an increase in production. Technically demotivating staff lowers productivity.

We're living in the Corporate rule error. Pretty much the past 50 years.

[Friendlybro79]

I just noticed my phone autocorrected office to orifice lol. This was not intentional but hilarious

[Friendlybro79]

And it's corporate rule era. I need new glasses lol

[Avicenna]

Sustainable cheap energy? I sure hope you have a way to pay for the huge subsidies that will entail.

I don’t think most people want what you’re selling. And can cities survive without expensive commercial real estate paying much of the freight?

Are you ready for Mamdani’s property tax increases? He won’t need the state legislature’s approval……

[DrPepper12]

Wrong but whatevs

[Avicenna]

Just because you say so, right?

[Avicenna]

I never cease to be amazed how leftists expect everyone to march in lockstep with the control freak agendas.

[exitseven]

Cities are all done. Who wants to deal with the high taxes, no parking, crime, and homeless camps.

Democrat Housing Project

[DrPepper12]

Nope. Cities are certainly done

[seeyounexttuesday]

Lol, you commies need something else to meddle with, eh?

[DrPepper12]

I thought commies were already urban to you?

[DJB72]

WEF already told you.

You will own nothing and be happy.

[Snakeyes7]

Cities can fix themselves but given that Detroit is still a hellhole, it won't.

[DrPepper12]

Detroit is an exceptional case of rapid depopulation

[Snakeyes7]

Not surprising. With a crime rate that insane, I'd move out too.