The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving - Leigh Gallagher, Talks at Google

I like how she forgot to mention that the suburbs were built after desegregation in the US and that redlining and white flight were huge reasons why ghettos formed in the inner city.

Realtors scared white people into selling their old homes, buying new suburban homes and sold the old ones to black people.

The suburbs was also designed to encourage driving. The US auto industry was strong, there was a strong middle class due to mass production factory jobs so people could afford a car and a house.

Development trends over the last few years are shifting back to a more rail favoured system where people have closer access to mass transit and subways. Younger people drive less because it's expensive and because it's not as boring to take mass transit if you have a phone and wifi.

With the economy being bad, you're going to see more people staying with their parents so instead of just old people in the suburbs, you're going to have poor people and old people in the suburbs.

That's not a bad thing though because if communities work on creating central hubs, like neighborhood markets that have everything you need to avoid driving, it encourages walkability. This is also good for people who telecommute often.

This season's South Park is relevant with the whole foods sodadsopa stuff. Rich developers muscling out poor people and taking over run down communities to sell expensive condos to dumbass yuppies.

Developers lately maximize their properties so they can turn them into duplexes or quad townhome type things where people pay like $350k for 900 square feet.

Everything is about 'urban' nowadays, which is funny because really it's just always been an upper class buzz word to say 'hey, we're stealing this from poor inner city people to sell to suburban hipsters who want to live the image.

I need to get into this scam. Writing books using basic urban planning knowledge then apply financial speculation based off marketing terms. No seriously, I love community development. Environment is a huge factor on social growth both individually and collectively.

The difference is that she's in the business of making money, my interest is more about fixing poverty and improving overall quality of life.

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