> These restrictive rules weren’t a problem back when Sun Belt cities could expand by building new single-family homes at their exurban fringes indefinitely. (…) Recently, however, many Sun Belt cities have begun hitting limits to their outward sprawl (…) To keep growing, these cities will have to find ways to increase the density of their existing urban cores and suburbs. That is a much more difficult proposition.
It always comes down to increasing density, and people’s apparent view that once they move somewhere the place they moved to should remain exactly the same forever. Never mind that most places Americans would consider to be emblematic of small town Americana would be effectively impossible to build today due to having such blasphemous things as stores near houses, or buildings that go right up to the street.
It always comes down to increasing density, and people’s apparent view that once they move somewhere the place they moved to should remain exactly the same forever. Never mind that most places Americans would consider to be emblematic of small town Americana would be effectively impossible to build today due to having such blasphemous things as stores near houses, or buildings that go right up to the street.