Perhaps instead of encouraging people to move from the suburbs to the city you need to make sure that there are shopping and leisure opportunities in the suburbs.
I realise that the city/suburb thing as I framed it in this article is a very North American perspective. The nature of north American suburbs is such that it really isn't viable to provide walking distance shopping and leisure opportunities. The population density is too low. People move to the suburbs because they want a big house on a large lot. The price of that is low density. Also, the developers aren't interested in that kind of livability. They want the shopping concentrated in large box stores which are more profitable for them and their tenants.
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Date: 2009-02-25 10:47 pm (UTC)I realise that the city/suburb thing as I framed it in this article is a very North American perspective. The nature of north American suburbs is such that it really isn't viable to provide walking distance shopping and leisure opportunities. The population density is too low. People move to the suburbs because they want a big house on a large lot. The price of that is low density. Also, the developers aren't interested in that kind of livability. They want the shopping concentrated in large box stores which are more profitable for them and their tenants.