The crime in the inner city FOLLOWED the development of the suburb.
Mass transit is a money pit
Yes, in North American cities. Because of the ring of office parks that cause radial routing to the city center to fail at providing effective routing to where people actually want to go, because they need more orbital routes.
You think I'm blaming the suburbs and the cars.
I'm blaming the office parks.
You can build suburbs and make mass transit work, Europe does that all over the place. But you can't build a secondary ring of commercial/industrial activity outside the CBD and expect mass transit to function properly.
Now here's what I want you to do. I want you to freeze that mental image of the Docklands in relation to Westminster in your head, right.
Okay?
Now I want you to go look at Denver. Northfield? Commerce City? Arvada? They're all like five miles outside the core.
Chicago. Cicero is like five miles from downtown. Schamburg, you're already on the far side of O'Hare. AURORA. YOU'RE A QUARTER OF THE WAY TO FUCKING IOWA IN AURORA!
This isn't correct. The Tower of London is three miles from Canary Wharf. The Palace of Westminster is five - roughly the same as the other distances you quote.
The crime in the inner city FOLLOWED the development of the suburb.
Yes, in North American cities. Because of the ring of office parks that cause radial routing to the city center to fail at providing effective routing to where people actually want to go, because they need more orbital routes.
You think I'm blaming the suburbs and the cars.
I'm blaming the office parks.
You can build suburbs and make mass transit work, Europe does that all over the place. But you can't build a secondary ring of commercial/industrial activity outside the CBD and expect mass transit to function properly.
That's what America did after the war.
Canary Wharf is like a mile from the Tower.
Now here's what I want you to do. I want you to freeze that mental image of the Docklands in relation to Westminster in your head, right.
Okay?
Now I want you to go look at Denver. Northfield? Commerce City? Arvada? They're all like five miles outside the core.
Chicago. Cicero is like five miles from downtown. Schamburg, you're already on the far side of O'Hare. AURORA. YOU'RE A QUARTER OF THE WAY TO FUCKING IOWA IN AURORA!
This isn't correct. The Tower of London is three miles from Canary Wharf. The Palace of Westminster is five - roughly the same as the other distances you quote.